Natural Born Killers

In response to a recent suggestion by a loved one that we start "frying everyone" instead of paying for them to be in prison:


Death row and the execution process is more expensive than life in prison. This is a common misperception among the general public, that frying everyone will save us lots of money. The issue of wrongful executions aside for now, see

http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/event2/costs.html
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/index.php
http://www.ncadp.org/fact_sheet3.html

www.msu.edu/~millettf/DeathPenalty/abolish.pdf

Sounds good, but doesn't actually work.