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Would spending the rest of his life behind bars not accomplish the same thing?
If that were certain, yes. But the prison costs a fortune, and the people in charge have a terrible habit of giving parole.
A death sentence costs more than imprisonment for life.
Oh, I'm sure that depends on your locality, I reckon stonings in Saudi Arabia are pretty cheap 😉
You can't have cheaper executions without removing safeguards which are supposed to stop innocent people from getting executed. But I have this strange feeling that doesn't really matter to you :)
When there is absolutely no doubt, that a person has raped, I have no problem with castration, when there is no doubt a person has murdered, i have no problem with thr death penalty. Perhaps we should send all the "rehabilitated" convicts to live next door to you? How would you feel?
As of right now, the US has many layers that are supposed to keep innocent people off death row, yet they still kill more than 4% innocent people. There is absolutely no way to save money on executions without increasing this number.
Since you'd like to kill people, maybe we should just execute you? How would you feel?
Ultimately, I'm not interested in the financial element of protecting society, whatever the cost of assuring rapists and murders is money well spent, but this is off topic, going back to OP's original question, yes murders deserve to die, I share an unpopular opinion, so be it.
Yes, let's save the innocent by letting the state murder them instead! That will show those murderers.
The death penalty is cheap in Saudi Arabia because they enact it against people who don't deserve to die. Surely you aren't advocating for murdering your countrymen for being gay or trans or something, right? Because that would be evil.
Don't be stupid
I'm not the one tacitly endorsing Saudi Arabian "justice"
Biblical justice, if you prefer, eye for an eye.
The reason the death penalty is so expensive is because we need to be extremely damn sure that we're taking a proverbial eye from the right person. Around 4% of people sentenced to death are later found to be innocent. The only ways to make it cheaper are to remove the appeals process which inevitably leads to innocent people dying, or to raise the standard of evidence required for a death penalty to a point where we essentially abolish it anyway.