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If killing criminals is more expensive than caging them, that’s an implementation detail. It’s not something to make long term planning decisions based on. If improving the economics of executions were a significant concern, it’s really straightforward to address.

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That, plus there's no possible way to make executions more expensive than life imprisonment, unless the country is making incarceration profitable by using convicts as slave labor or selling their organs.

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