The Death Penalty makes more sense than Solitary Confinement for Life.

Expecting a criminal to pay upwards of 3 million dollars is unreasonable (see one of my links in the comment section for the exact numbers), not because it is a burden on the criminal, but because few murderers will be able to pay that money in any form. Therefore, the burden will have to fall on the taxpayers. This can easily be avoided by using solitary confinement instead of the death penalty. In fact, solitary confinement would be especially cheap since it would get rid of the problem of having to pay more for facilities and Internet usage that some prisoners receive." Your solitary confinement would require individual bathrooms. Also, perhaps the government could "sell" the death of the criminal to the movie business to use in a scene in which they would have to fake an actor being killed, or they could sell the rights to perform the execution. I'm reminded of a scene from the show NCIS: Interrogator: "How do you feel right now?" Suspect: "I feel like killing someone, SIR." Interrogator: "Anyone in particular?" Suspect: "Anyone will do, SIR." "-To this point, I will say that 130 people have been exonerated from death row from DNA evidence as of late last year. That is 130 innocent people who were condemned to die. How many more are killed by the death penalty who are innocent? We can never know... Solitary confinement at least gives them the chance to be exonerated if they are innocent, which does indeed occur. To me, the government execution of one innocent person is entirely unacceptable and any practice that allows for that possibility so blatantly is immoral." For one thing, I'd like some proof to back up your numbers. For another, you didn't really respond to what I said. You said nothing about applying the technologies sooner, or how someone could frame someone for a death sentence... so those points have been conceded. Also, how long does it take for a guy to be proven innocent from death row after he has been proven guilty? A month? A year? Finally, what you think is immoral is not immoral to the rest of the people. "-Another argument against the death penalty and for solitary confinement for life is that death is actually less punitive. Solitary confinement forces the prisoner to think about their actions for a lifetime. They do not get the luxury of dying a quick death. Their life is now restricted to one room, with no contact with outsiders, basically. Death row inmates do not have such restrictive prison lives before they finally get a quick death. Which is more punitive? A lifetime of being alone in a small cell, where you contemplate the atrocity you have committed? Or a less restricted prison stay with the end result PROBABLY being your quick death. Justice is not necessarily eye for an eye. If you really want to punish someone, make them live like this from the beginning of their guilty verdict. This isn't the main crux of my argument, it's just another point to bring up." If the prisoner would rather die than live a worthless life, because there's really no point in stopping him. He could strangle himself, or starve himself, or beat his head on the wall repeatedly. It's also really hard to find God without the help of a priest, unless you're already a Christian. Also, why would you want to keep someone alive if they're never going to actually do anything with it? And what about writing their will? If they're locked up in solitary confinement, it becomes really hard to contact your lawyer for such purposes. Could you give an example of meaning in life after imprisonment? Extended meaning in life? A prisoner could attack the guy who gives him food, and get out. Also, if a prison full of solitarily confined inmates suddenly gets hit by a flood or an earthquake, and the building collapses, and all of the inmates escape, then, well, there's a hundred more criminals out on the streets. "-Who does the death penalty "get it over with" for? The prisoner? Are you saying you support it because it's quicker for the prisoner? In that case, isn't it not really that much of a punishment, as I stated in my above paragraph? Also, to say the prisoners have no purpose/meaning in life simply because they are in solitary confinement seems slightly superficial. Meaning can certainly be found in such situations." I'm not supporting it because it's quicker for the criminal; I'm supporting it because it's quicker for the rest of us. A person's right to life ends where they tried to take that right away from another. "-I will give you the points about Solitary Confinement and being able to do things, as I briefly forgot that I was fighting for solitary confinement over death penalty, not just jail time." Thank you.