Sentencing a prisoner to life in prison is a better allocation of resources than sentencing him to be executed. First I'll present figures representing the dollar costs of capital punishment versus life in prison/no parole. Then I'll discuss the deterrent effect as the only legitimate rational justification for capital punishment. Then I'll discuss the externalities of capital punishment. A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the …showed first 75 words of 3577 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3577 total…good act. No one could watch an execution and say, "this is a good thing". And, as I have shown, it is not a necessary thing. So what is it? It's just pure vindictiveness on the part of an irrational mob. It's the action of a hypocritical egotistical social paradigm that perceives its value system as the absolute authority in determining justice in the universe. It's a system whose actions conclude that "might makes right".