Quote Originally Posted by yesdachi View Post
This is where the cost of the protection kicks in for me; IIRC 20% of Michigan’s state budget is spent on jails and prisons and the social impact of having a so many people in prison cant be measured, but how many prison guards turn into jerks after dealing with so many hardcore criminals everyday, how many rehabilitateable inmates are not given a chance because they are influenced by the worst offenders in existence? There are an average of 6-7 hundred murders and 5,000+ rapes in Michigan each year. Other inmates, guards and society in general would be better off with the people who have committed those crimes gone, permanently.
Execution for (saving) money? Why do I find that there's something wrong there?

Anyway, unless you got really serious problems in the US, I assume that you're not the nation with the most prisoners in the world (well offical statistics, some dictorships like China might beat you in the unofficial stats) due to murderers and rapists.

So even if you're doing execution for budget reasons it still won't work...