If killing them is due to lack of interest in keeping them alive, then surely a budgetary argument should be exactly the sort to sway you. I think tossing someone into a supermax facility for life without parole is tantamount to killing them as far as society is concerned. If that's so, then you have to ask whether killing them is "worth" the trouble, chance of wrongful conviction, and, as this report cites, expense, just as you do ask whether keeping them alive is "worth" our time (and presumably expense, space, etc). If these people have no value to society, which method of "disposal" is less costly?
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Date: 2009-02-25 10:30 pm (UTC)