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Odejście od kary śmierci w Europie ma oprócz względów humanitarnych także powody czysto prawne. Uważam, że KS jest w wielu przypadkach jak najbardziej sprawiedliwy, ale jako kara nieodwracalna nie może być stosowany w niedoskonałym systemie prawnym. Pomyłki w stosowaniu KS w USA ocenia się na kilka procent.
dożywotnie więzienie jest przede wszystkim duuużo tańsze od kary śmierci
To chyba tylko w stanach gdzie masz niedorzeczne stawki prawnicze i rownie niedorzeczne koszty procesow sadowych
mówię o stanach, jakie inne cywilizowane państwo stosowało szeroko tą karę w ostatnich 25 latach? tylko usa.
po prostu w cywilizowanym kraju sprawdza się wszystko po 15 razy, żeby nie skazać osoby niewinnej... a to kosztuje
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphilli ... de240e17f0"studies have “uniformly and conservatively shown that a death-penalty trial costs $1 million more than one in which prosecutors seek life without parole.”
And let’s not forget about appeals: in Idaho, the
[u]State Appellate Public Defenders office spent about 44 times more time on a typical death penalty appeal than on a life sentence appeal (downloads as a pdf): almost 8,000 hours per capital defendant compared to about 180 hours per non-death penalty defendant.[/u]
New York state projected that the death penalty costs the state $1.8 million per case just through trial and initial appeal.It costs more to house death penalty prisoners, as well. In Kansas, housing prisoners on death row costs more than twice as much per year ($49,380) as for prisoners in the general population ($24,690). In California, incarceration costs for death penalty prisoners totaled more than $1 billion from 1978 to 2011 (total costs outside of incarceration were another $3 billion). By the numbers, the annual cost of the death penalty in the state of California is $137 million compared to the cost of lifetime incarceration of $11.5 million.
In a tough economy, those dollars add up quickly. And who pays for these costs? State and local governments typically bear the burden of paying to pursue death penalty cases and those costs are typically budgeted and paid for through tax dollars. State spending on corrections, including prisons, has nearly quadrupled over the past two decades: it is now the fastest-growing budget item after Medicaid (report downloads as a pdf).
Some taxpayers suggest that the way to address the cost question is to shorten the appeals process. That isn’t likely to happen. The wheels of justice move slowly at the best of times. When a person’s life is at stake, it’s even more important to go slowly and get it right: you don’t want to make a mistake. Even if it would pass constitutional muster (it wouldn’t), eliminating the appeals process would still be more expensive than alternative sentences."
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