Most prisons are like holiday camps with tv,computer games gym and the list goes on ,why should they have any creature comforts !! ? Do the crime ? Do the time ? And if its serious enough to deserve the death penalty they should be executed

 The main reason it costs so much money to put a convicted murderer on death row has very little to do with the sentence the convicted receives. If anything it costs as much as it does to apply the death penalty because of the number of appeals and the chronic back and forth, tit for tat chess game that goes on between the state and the defense of the convicted. It's not just appeals, it's the motions for delay, it's the requests for clemency it's pushing the date of execution back over and over again until a convicted murderer that should have been terminated 3 months after sentencing has been sitting there for 20 + years with no set date in sight. THATS why it costs so much to put somebody on death row. Here's an idea, don't complain about the cost, complain about the amount of appeals and second chances these people are getting. Their victims SURELY were not given the same option.

And as far as the state sanctioned revenge point goes, screw the state. Why not ask what the victim's family wants? You cannot use the words "morally corrupt" to describe the punishment designated for actions that have NO moral value. If someone decides to violently take 1 life or many, then that person has given up their rights to be treated as a human. At that time, we as a society are no longer executing a person, we are excising a malignant cancer.
It's also true that there is no proven link between the death penalty and violent crime prevention. Then again, if you take that road you have to admit that there is no proof that the death penalty does not prevent violent crime. It all depends on where you do your research. I will also point out that executions and capitol punishment used to be public. I'm pretty sure that if it still was there would be a noticeable decline in violent crime.

 I feel that when you murder someone then you must get the Death Sentence. You didn't think about the other person when you decided to kill that person so why should it be any different for the person who committed the crime. We use to have the Death Penalty in our country and it worked perfectly. It was definitely a deterrent. The problem is laying with your Justice System. We never had people sitting in jail waiting to be sentenced for so many years. If you murder someone and all the evidence points to you then its time to go. If you raped, steal or commited any kind of fraudulent acts then you get jail sentences. It worked perfectly until they decided to take the Death Penalty away, now it is a feast for criminals.

Our jails are so full now that they had to build two more jails now to take all the criminals. Murderers have a royal time in jail. The criminals that commit crimes like steal, rape and so on, stay in jail for about three to four weeks and then they get released because of jails being to full just to commit the same crime and be back in jail a week later. To murder someone here is even better.

Explain this to me. Someone forget to pay his TV licence. The Inspector comes to his house and give him a fine of R1000,00 but the guy that murder someone gets released on bail for R500,00 which is R500,00 less than the guy that didn't pay his TV licence. So what did I tell this guy. "Maybe you should have killed the Inspector in that way you would have paid R500,00 and no more irritating Inspector to bother you".

It is so bad here that you don't drive at night. I had to install security systems in my house and they still got in while I was sleeping and had to put beams in on the outside of my house now as well and they still came back but at least they couldn't come in my house. So you tell me which one is the better life.

Here it cost us more to keep them in jail then to kill them

 The prisoner that has killed whether done with a vehicle while drunk or they used a weapon to kill. The prisoner needs killed as well. A life for a life taken. There is no reason to spare ones life for killing another life.

 I am for it 100%. Eye for an eye. There should be no appeals and a short time in jail. ONLY for the cases where the accused are 100% guilty through admission or multi witnesses

 I think there should be death penalty's...you want to keep them in jail?...ok you tell that to the familys of the people they have killed..raped..and so on...you say" aww them poor people living in a box" let me tell you they are living better then you are 3 meals a day t.v. Gym...they all should get put down....O and guess who all pays the there life long vacation...TAX PAYERS like you and me

 I think there should be death penalty's for only the clear cut cases of Murder, terrorism, and for serious crimes to minor children. The population continues to get larger and larger, and more people are being locked up. We should concentrate on those that can be rehabilitated and released eventually to become productive citizens. Murder's don't value the meaning of life, and don't deserve to continue living on this earth to destroy anything else.

 There are some that it is known they are responsible for their acts on inhumanity against man! Such as Jeffrey Dahlmer! Child rapist that kill these poor kids after abusing them to death! I knew a man who had a 13 year old daughter that was raped for days and then as the killer stated killed her like a deer! People like this have no conscious or remorse. They are not human but have truly crossed the boundaries and will never be human. These individuals are not fit for life nor should they be given even a second of breath beyond this one! This is limited however as there are those that it is questionable of their association and it is a tough decision but having known what some do and that they are busted with no doubt of their guilt! They should be killed on the spot!

This is of course only after years of appeals and plead outs and reduced charges. Individuals that are on Death-row are there for the better of us all a reason. It takes years for an individual that is sentenced to a capital crime does not happen unless the inmate request it's execution which still takes time. Timothy McVee was the fastest that I have ever seen.