Oh no. Im not saying execute solely for money. The person will get the required and same number of appeals as everyone else, that is the way our system of law works.
If they have commited a serious crime, and given a life sentence.. why keep them alive clogging up the overcrowded prisons, requiring all this security, food and medical services. We have shortages of everything already in society. And everyone is now crying about wasted resources.. how is this not?
It will have an effect on people, with the chance of getting executed for a crime, it will not stop the crazies but it will stop of the more 'in the middle' people.
Actually, in a way I guess I am, thinking about it now. I havent looked at it that way before. hmm.
But, in a way you almost have to. We are having a shortage of public health and other services due to lack of money already. The average person charged and incarcerated with a crime recieving life imprisonment is between 22 and 37(? cant remember but its around there).. and at 100k a year at TODAYS costs with the average person living to 80 years old is between 4-5 million dollars. thats not including future inflation.
Now look at the average wage in canada being 37,000 a year (2005). That should speak volumes by itself but look as well at the taxes on that, its like 15.5k per year. So by people alone paying their entire income tax towards keeping a person in prison is 6-7 taxpayers.
