I donât benefit from it, thatâs not my area. Â But the average cost to imprison someone is around $15k per year (on average in the US) and capital cases cost somewhere between $1.5-$3M with over half being overturned or reduced to life in prison anyway. Â These numbers may be inflated since the last report I read but Iâm sure it would be on both sides and higher on the DP side if anything.
So whatâs the point? Â We feel better because we got to return the favor on someone (hopefully) who committed a heinous crime? Â And I donât know I can say we have âcomplicatedâ it. Which appeal should we cut out? Â Our justice system has a pecking order and we have higher courts for a reason. When we are about to impose the ultimate judgment, should we cut steps that other cases have to save a buck? Â Or do we not pay for an indigent personâs experts at the trial court level because itâs too expensive?
Or do we just lock them up and throw away the key (unless we later find out they werenât actually guilty, in which case we have a key and a life we havenât unjustly ended) and save a ton of money? Â Seems to me to be an easy and obvious solution but Iâm more of a pragmatist.
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