Actually it doesn't cost more to execute someone by lethal injection. The average cost per execution is about 1300.00. It just so happens that one of the main drugs used, Sodium Thiopental is manufactured by only one company in the United States and is very costly to manufacture in large quantities and there currently is an extreme shortage of the drug causing the price to increase far over what was originally intended.Jim
Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin
Since you can die quickly from an Air Embalism, and since air's free, why not dispose with those bloody chemicals, and just inject them with pure air!
6 volunteers with rifles. 3 blanks, 3 real rounds....what is that $8.00?
And death is almost instant. No one has to know how to find a good vein....
Yea, ok. You'll need a water hose for afterwards.
16 bucks at walmart.
Originally Posted by grean
Add to that imo part of the BIG cost with the 'death sentence', is how long they stay ON Death row in solitary, AND ALL their appeal after appeal after appeal they get..
IMO Death row should be ONE APPEAL, and a MAX of 5 years from time of conviction till sentence is carried out..