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Instead of sentencing criminals to life in prison they should be sentenced to death. The govt is spending millions of dollars for the sustenance of these inmates. The crimes committed to merit a life sentence are heinous and inhumane, why must the govt pay such a staggering amount of money to keep them alive? They could be spending that money on us, creating new programs, using it towards research, really anything that could be used towards our own benefit. Currently, Colorado is devising a proposal to let criminals with minor sentences go on parole earlier to cut costs and reduce over crowding in prisons. The problem could lessen if we remove those taking up the space unnecessarily. Personally I don't want to wander among a bunch of criminals! Especially if the reason for it was because there wasn't a 6x9 prison cell to stick them in. I find it ridiculous that more money and attention is given to the penal system than say a cure for heart disease.

Too much money gets spent on the penal system approx 60 billion a year. Inmates need to be fed, clothed, etc and there cost per day is about 50 dollars give or take depending on many factors. There are a little more than 140,000 prisoners serving life, so for people that do nothing, excuse me murder, steal... We are wasting a good deal on. Apparently sentencing someone to death takes more money than giving them a life sentence and that may be true but so few are actually givin the death penalty. And if we start using it more the cost of the death penalty would go down.

I need more stats and figures to make my points valid. I need to know the exact cost of the death penalty vs a life sentence. For my proposition to be valid and accepted I must make those sentenced to life look like inhumane cold blooded savages and that will take a bunch of info highlighting their crimes and showing previos records. I just know I have tons of research to do.

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- The U.S' first landing on the moon is a hoax
- Abolish the life sentence for the death penalty
- Benefits of higher taxes