Capital Punishment For Murderers

[Copernicus]

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Are you suggesting that there are no incidental costs incurred between trial to execution?

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None that are (or need to be) signficantly greater than the incidental costs for the judicial system to finally get to the point of "life without parole".

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This is definitely going beyond the scope of what actually started this discussion (see my post above), but I would argue that the burden of proof necessarily has to be higher than the burden of proof of life without parole. Even if we assume one is no more inhumane than the other, the latter is still possible to correct if a mistake is discovered.

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requiring a higher burden of proof doesnt mean it costs more to prosecute, it just means the jury will vote for the death penalty fewer times.