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The sniper should be executed,

Personally I don't want to spend my tax money to keep him alive in prison for the rest of his life where he is going to die anyway. I don't want to be the one contributing to his 'salary' of $120,000yr(that's how much it cost to keep one prisoner alive in prison) kill him...save me some money

again.. there is a difference vengance and lawful punishment in the interest of justice regardless of your opinion to the contrary..

we were never neandertals.. there were common ancestor between the two species but that was a divergent limb of evolution.. that's been rather well documented.. Neandertal man was wiped out by homo sapiens. We did not evolve from them..

by your logic, the legitimacy of any exercise of punishment under the law would be nullified by your religious agruement..

so lets just stop enforcing law en toto and let there be chaos.

Time would be better spent trying to figure out why people are compelled to commit such egregious crimes.

Oh but any race of humans that would execute their own kind for any reason is less than a neandrathal.

There is no difference contrary to your belief, I posted the definition.

My logic has nothing to do with what I have been discussing with you.


I have been discussing with the you the Christian nonjustification for their death penalty.

My logic is that we should be too smart by now to even consider a death penalty as a legitimate form of punishment. I guess I can keep hopin and wishin for the brains to grow....

so the DC Sniper is due to be executed tonight at 9. any thoughts?

i'm all for capital punishment, especially in cases where the perpetrator is as demented this one seems to be.

Considering he was found sitting in the car where the shots were fired along with the rifle they were using is there any question he was not the shooter?He should have been taken from the court room right to the execution chamber that day.It bothers me the tax payers had to pay so much money keeping this worthless exucse for a human alive for many years.As far as execution.He should be strung up on a pole and have the victims families drive by in cars shooting the same rifles he was shooting.I would also make sure the bullets were dipped in pigs blood.His bleeding heart lawyers saying he was innocent should also be strung up right next to him.

If cost is your motivator and not vengeance then you are being hoodwinked....
FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF THE DEATH PENALTY

The cost of prosecuting a capital case is exceedingly high. Various state commissions, universities, and publications have undertaken studies to determine how the cost of prosecuting such cases and executing the convicted person compares to prosecuting a non-capital case and incarcerating the person for life. In fact capital cases are much more expensive and place a huge burden on the counties in which the cases are tried.

An Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission in January 2002 found that the total costs of the death penalty exceeded the complete costs of life without parole sentences by about 38%. This figure assumed that 20% of the death sentences were overturned and reduced to life. A Duke University study in 1993 found that the death penalty was costing North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The Dallas Morning News reported on March 8, 1992, that a death penalty case cost about three times as much as incarcerating someone in a single cell at the highest security for 40 years. It goes on.

Dartmouth College economist Katherine Baicker studied county budgets for 14 years. Her statistical analysis published in 2001 showed that counties that brought a death penalty case had a tax rate 1.6% higher than others. Those same counties spent 3.3% less on law enforcement and highways.

In fact, Jasper County, Texas, spent more than $1.02 million bringing death penalty cases against the three men accused of the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. (the dragging death). Subsequently, the county was forced to raise property taxes 6.7% over two years. One defendant received a life sentence; the other two received the death penalty. The state of New Jersey has spent $253.3 million on its death penalty system since 1982 when the death penalty was reinstated. There have been 197 capital trials, 60 death penalty convictions of which 50 were reversed, and no executions.

Due to mandatory appeals required by the U.S. Supreme Court, a death row inmate will generally serve a minimum of 10 years at the Colorado State Penitentiary before execution. The average cost of incarcerating inmates at the Colorado State Penitentiary, including death row inmates, is $103.58 per day. The Colorado State Penitentiary is a Security Level V facility (maximum security) with a mission of incarcerating high-risk offenders. Due to heightened security requirements and increased staffing needs, the associated costs are higher than at a lower security facility.

Huh.....legal evidence is a must in any case .
Thank goodness you are not making any laws .
This world saw many innocent people found guilty with crimes they never committed .

The sniper should be executed,

Personally I don't want to spend my tax money to keep him alive in prison for the rest of his life where he is going to die anyway. I don't want to be the one contributing to his 'salary' of $120,000yr(that's how much it cost to keep one prisoner alive in prison) kill him...save me some money