Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[Lissa]

I live in Texas. We have the death penalty. We often use it. Why not in her case? I am not keen on my tax dollars being used to allow her to use up good people's air. However, I suspect plenty of bleeding hearts here in Texas don't mind, so it probably comes out in the wash. They pay taxes too.

No excuse you can offer me mitigates her vile crime. If you want to hang her husband as an accomplice for deliberately and purposely depriving her of proper medication, I doubt I'd argue. Hang him too, as an accomplice. Hang them both, and help remove stupidity and worthlessness from the gene pool.

Call me heartless if you like. Some people just need killing.

Occhi

You realize Occhi that is costs more to try to kill someone that it does to put them away for life? Life without Parole means you get one appeal unless evidence comes up that proves your innocence. With putting someone on death row, they end up costing tax payers more money over the course of 15 to 20 years (pretty standard for the time spent on death row) because they have many more appeals and can appeal on grounds that they wouldn't get if they were put away for life.

So if you're going to bring in economics into this, it's cheaper to put them away for life than it is to kill them.