[petea]

"... costs millions of tax payer dollars because of the long appeals processes ..."

I hear this as an argument against death penalty a lot, when it actually isn't. It doesn't say whether or not death penalty is right or wrong.

Maybe we should work to reduce the cost to allow swift death penalty when there's a clear reason for conviction.

[zzalpha]

Except that much of what makes the death penalty expensive, the lengthy appeals process, is to counteract the risk of a false conviction. You can't not pay that price unless you're willing to accept a higher false conviction rate and therefore more folks wrongfully killed by the state.

Can't say I'm a fan of that option.

[e40]

You're going to have to supply some evidence to the contrary, because everything I've read is that it is very expensive to put someone to death.