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The act of putting a particularly loathsome criminal in a chair and then running enough electricity through the chair to kill it. Other methods include lethal injection, hanging, firing squads, and gas chambers.
An act that should be administered much, MUCH more frequently as it is a great way to curb our nation's problem with jail populations.
Oh and don't even bother telling me that "it costs more to put someone to death than to keep them alive on Death Row for 20 years." No, it doesn't. Let's do the math.
20 years of food and water + court costs and lawyer fees = Lots of money.
1 trial + 1 last meal + 1 bullet = A lot less money.
And what you "economists" don't realize is that we're putting people to death AFTER they've been on Death Row for 20 years! So it doesn't matter which one costs more, because the taxpayers are paying for both.
An act that should be administered much, MUCH more frequently as it is a great way to curb our nation's problem with jail populations.
Oh and don't even bother telling me that "it costs more to put someone to death than to keep them alive on Death Row for 20 years." No, it doesn't. Let's do the math.
20 years of food and water + court costs and lawyer fees = Lots of money.
1 trial + 1 last meal + 1 bullet = A lot less money.
And what you "economists" don't realize is that we're putting people to death AFTER they've been on Death Row for 20 years! So it doesn't matter which one costs more, because the taxpayers are paying for both.
Oh and for the rest of you that say "The Death Penalty is not a deterrent." That's because we don't administer it enough. Start putting all child rapists and murderers to death immediately after the trial, and watch the crime rate drop since most child rapists and murderers are repeat offenders.
by One Half January 21, 2006
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We bid 5 tricks, but only took 4, and we already had 8 overbooks. Then on the next hand, we took 2 bags. We lost 150 points in 2 hands. Man, I hate getting the okie doke.
by One Half December 28, 2005
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