Death Penalty Vs Life Imprisonment Analysis

The price of hanging a convicted felon is $99 and all the supplies needed for lethal injection total $168. The cost of life imprisonment is over $90,00 per inmate per year. In 2014, there were 34 death row inmates, on top of that there are over 49,000 people serving life imprisonment. Assuming each prisoner is admitted at the age of 30 and the expected life span of males in the us is 69 years that’s a total of 39 years. Multiply that by $90,000 (cost per year) and that is a grand total of $3,150,000 per person. $154,457,100,000 for all inmates combined. Not to mention, those are taxpayers dollars. Now, take the cost of lethal injection and multiply it by 34. That comes to a total of $5,712. That is 3,144,288 dollars for all inmates on death row. Obviously, this isn’t just an economic decision but doesn’t society have a moral obligation when this money could be allocated to pay for other things such as social services? You’ll have to then counter the argument that it’s not just an economic decision, but consider: does society have a moral obligation to pay this with taxpayers dollars that could otherwise be spent on social services for members of society who have not committed heinous crimes?] Not to mention that these are taxpayers

Watson was convicted for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Kathy Newman, a Tulane University medical student. Isn’t it only fair that every person that commits death penalty worthy crime receives it? Genesis 9:6 says “whosoever sheddeth a man’s blood, so shall his blood be shed” (Genesis). This is saying that everyone deserves to get what he or she did. A similar idea is the “eye for an eye.” An eye for an eye, or the law of retaliation is the principle that a person is penalized to a similar degree in softer interpretations; the victim receives the value of the injury in compensation (Matthew). Supporting the point that people deserve what they do to