Just Another Political Post.

[eppie]

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.

But, the costs of a death sentence are not just the 10 cents for a bullet. People often spend years on death row, which is much costier then normal prison.

But is of course not just very sec a question of "what do they deserve" and "how do we pay least", there is also the question of civilization and common decency. And more important then what do criminals deserve, is how can we make sure there will be less crime......harder punshments are not the answer, history told us that.

So on one side you have the guy who raped and killed 5 women and children who deserves the hardest punishment for that....but this same guy (a complete mental case of course) will not be kept from doing the things he does, just because he can get a certain heavy punishment. So if we want to stop things like this to happen, we should find other ways.

It is known that poverty is a basis for crime as well (I'm not talking about the mental case now). I don't believe that people are not responsible for their acts because they are poor, but I do know that punishing them harder is not a solution to end this crime. Ending poverty is.

So the question is what do you want?. Do you want to make sure that everybody has to pay in a major way for their deeds and point all your attention to that. Or do you point your attention on actually trying to bring back crime numbers.

If your living in a small vilage where not much happens I can imagine you will favour the first option. If however you live in area's where there is much crime, you would like to have solutions first.

Please understand, that I do think people should be punsihed for crimes of course.