[fasteddy1970]

1) Surveys and statistics have shown that it does not discourage people from killing.

2)In most states, no one sentenced to death has ever been released unless they were proven innocent.

3)In the more expensive states the trial and appeal process (usually 13 to 20 years) costs between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 sometimes a bit more.

Keeping him alive cost around $35,000 per year (again I'm talking in the more expensive states on the two coasts) and that price is going up every year.

Keeping him alive from average age of commitment (25) to average age of death of (75) ends up at around the same price as trial, appeal and execution if you count inflation and the huge increases in medical costs associtated with older prisoners.