Advocates of state-sanctioned murder often roll out the argument that "it's cheaper to kill them than to support them for the rest of their lives." Well, when we calculate the full cost of the appeals process, that argument goes right out the window; the cost to maintain a prisoner on death row until his natural death is substantially less than the cost of trying him all the way through the judicial system. That's true in a case of a normal life expectancy.
It's far more obviously true in the case of a terminally ill prisoner.
So what's the motivation behind the execution, aside from blood-thirsty vengeance?
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