Occhidiangela,Sep 22 2005, 07:00 AM Wrote:EDIT: The nonsense sentence of "life in prison without chance for parole" is to me a cruel and unusual punishment per the Constitution and prohibition therein. All those thus sentenced should, in my opinion, be put to death sooner rather than later via wastage on the public dime. My opinion is a minority opinion, of course.
Occhi
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Well, I'm with you Occhi. a bit of lead costs 10c? A life sentence in prison (Life = 14 years here lol.) costs around $60kpa ~= $0.8M which is much more than any crim is likely to contribute back to the public purse even if rehabilitated.
Savings per execution? At least a couple million, as criminals not only cost the country directly and inderectly through the results and repercussions of their original crime, they also cost for the duration of their incarceration, and are likely to commit similar offences upon release.
I wish we had the American system here, our sentences are much to light, and we are strangely focussed on offender rights... A recent event had a person who ran down another person (allegedly accidentally). They did not stop the car to go check if the person was OK, they continued on. They lied to the police and denied it until they were caught out. Final sentence for killing someone? 400hrs community service and no driving for a year....
With being a club captain of the local tennis club here, I am doing 10hrs/wk of what would be counted as community service. I also don't drive. So I can afford to kill a person per year without a change in my lifestyle :angry:
Also sentences here are concurrently served, not consecutively served. If you kill one person and ended up with the max term of 14 years, you are being punished just as strongly as the person that goes on a shooting rampage and kills 100 people. <_<
--Edit all figures are for NZ situation in NZD. Figures are guestimate based on memory last time I looked. They may be out by a large amount, but are order of magnitude correct.