Death Penalty for Kevin Daigle

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Not a huge fan of the death penalty 

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Why not? Some people need to go.

I'm actually for an idea I have, its 2 standards of death penalty.

Humane and Inhumane. Leave it up to imagination to what inhumane could be, but it could also be public.

Sometimes people need to be pleading and taking deals just to die peacefully.

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Why not? Some people need to go.

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It's a practice that inevitably gets innocent people murdered. By the state, no less.

Lock them up for 23.5 hours a day until the day they die, I don't care.

Sad thing is, he’ll probably die of natural causes at Angola before they get to fry him.

And our tax dollars will be taking care of him.

Still firmly believe if we still had public executions we’d have lower violent crime

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less than an hour to sentence Kevin Daigle to death

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Bookmarked for the 2039 execution date.

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And our tax dollars will be taking care of him.

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actually, ?
FINANCIAL FACTS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY
• Defense costs for death penalty trials in Kansas averaged about $400,000 per case, compared to $100,000 per case when the death penalty was not sought. (Kansas Judicial Council, 2014).
• A new study in California revealed that the cost of the death penalty in the state has been over $4 billion since 1978. Study considered pre- trial and trial costs, costs of automatic appeals and state habeas corpus petitions, costs of federal habeas corpus appeals, and costs of incarceration on death row. (Alarcon & Mitchell, 2011).
• In Maryland, an average death penalty case resulting in a death sentence costs approximately $3 million. The eventual costs to Maryland taxpayers for cases pursued 1978-1999 will be $186 million. Five executions have resulted. (Urban Institute, 2008).
• Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000).
• The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level. (Duke University, May 1993).
• In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992).


so, the death penalty not only costs more, it's inhumane, as well as ineffective:

A report by the National Research Council, titled Deterrence and the Death Penalty, stated that studies claiming that the death penalty has a deterrent effect on murder rates are “fundamentally flawed” and should not be used when making policy decisions (2012).
• Consistent with previous years, the 2014 FBI Uniform Crime Report showed that the South had the highest murder rate. The South accounts for over 80% of executions. The Northeast, which has less than 1% of all Murder Rates per 100,000 (2014) executions, had lowest murder rate.
??• According to a survey of the former and present Midwest presidents of the country’s top academic criminological societies, 88% of these experts West rejected the notion that the death penalty acts as a Northeast deterrent to murder. (Radelet & Lacock, 2009)

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Mostly because it takes so long and there are so many legal challenges. Not a moral stance, more of a logistical one. Also have some concerns about older death sentences based on exonerations.

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What about Dead to rights, red handed cases?

Like Anders Breivik for example, kills 77 (lot of them very young) and injured 319. If that happened in the United states?

Inhumane would be carried out swiftly. Within a month. Would need to secure PPV contracts and rights.

All money from PPV proceeds will go to victims and families

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It's a practice that inevitably gets innocent people murdered. By the state, no less.

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That’s a rarity nowadays. However, I do believe that there needs to be overwhelming amounts of evidence against the defendant for the death penalty to be used and a unanimous decision by the jury.

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Sadly, it'll be 2 decades till it actually happens though.

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FIFY

Sounds like we need to streamline the process