Executing Child Rapists

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So again, it comes to a straight EV decision.

If 1 person in 1,000,000,000 was executed incorrectly, vs $20,000 per year in costs for keeping an inmate incarcerated, (Money that could be spent on better prorection for ALL citezens) then would it be better to have the death penalty for such crimes?

IOW, what is better, having X number of inocent people put to death or having Y number of inoccent people subjected to peadophiliac rape for cost z?

That is what I was referring to when I said it was an EV calc.

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Let's be objective and try to use some facts.
There was 1058 executions since 1973 (379 in Texas) and at the same time 123 death-row prisoners have been released since 1976 because they were innocent. In addition, at least seven people have been executed even though they were probably innocent since 1976. Do a math, that's not close to one of a billion IMO.

Also, a death penalty costs more than life in prison. The most comprehensive death penalty study in the country found that the death penalty cost North Carolina $2.16 million more per execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment.

Death Penalty 101