Re: DON\'T KILL TOOKIE
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I am a California taxpayer, and I don't care to subsidize one more day of food for him.
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And do you not have a problem with subsidizing food for innumerable pimps, drug dealers, rapists, child molesters, murderers who weren't sentenced to death, etc., or do you simply think that all criminals should be executed?
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Not to mention that his death was more expensive to the state than keeping him alive.
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Liberals always trot this statement out to back up their opposition to the death penalty.
In fact, while the up front costs of a death penalty trial are higher, the execution saves the state many thousands of dollars in the long run. Particularly in view of the high per day cost of geriatric inmates.
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