re: Louisiana is trying to get rid of the death penalty

The death penalty is incredibly expensive to carry out due to the appeals process and the fact that it basically requires an entirely duplicitous set of sentencing trials in order to get a death sentence and defeat all of those appeals. It takes like 30 years to put someone to death. It would be a lot cheaper to just skip that process and give them life without parole.

There's also a major national shortage of lethal injection drugs.

I think they should be reforming the appeals and sentencing process to cut down the cost rather than getting rid of the penalty.