For one thing, capital punishment is more expensive than life imprisonment (which isn't keeping them in jail forever, because mortality.)
That's surprising to me. Bullets are cheap. What makes chemical executions so expensive?
The execution itself is not that expensive; what is expensive are the legal costs associated with the heightened scrutiny of capital cases.
Oh, I see. Thanks!
They seem to manage just fine jailing large amounts of people for pot possession and other non-violent crimes. If they were worried about costs, they wouldn't have been imprisoning like crazy for decades.
Are you talking about the richest nation on Earth?
Also, do you mean that it is Ok to kill a prisoner because it is too expensive to keep him alive?