The Death Penalty in Kansas

In terms of emotion and politics, the death penalty is a very sensitive topic in all communities. The family's family expected that some people would be raped and killed by neighboring elderly people and would accept the final death sentence. Taxpayers, on the other hand, do not want to pay a large tax on the execution of prisoners. Because there are numerous appeals involving death sentences, it will cost a lot of money to ensure that the decisions are 100% accurate.

The problem of cost is also very attractive. According to a survey of Kansas' death costs when the state faced a huge budget shortage, the death sentence was 70% higher than the equivalent non-death sentence. The City Institute reported that each of the Maryland five taxpayer's executions paid at least $ 37.2 million. Other arguments against the death penalty are supported, including uneven application of races and classes. It is only about 25% of the US population, but the black and Latin population accounts for over 55% of the current deceased. Most people of condemned poverty are poor

In Missouri and Kansas, even if politics is not so different, the perception of the death penalty will vary widely. Ten Kansas states are condemned and have not executed the death penalty since 1976, but Missouri is one of the most active states in recent years. There are 25 deaths currently in Missouri and someone executed Mark Christensen this year. The important factor she mentioned was that Kansas is always a free state and Missouri is a country that supports slavery and related racial terrorism. The country with the most lynch in history is usually the country maintaining the death penalty. She mentioned Brian Stevenson of the Equal Judicial Initiative for a compelling analysis of the problem. (This is Mr. Lynch of the United States: the legacy of horror fear)

According to the 2003 Legislative Audit of Kansas State in the United States, the estimate cost of death sentences was found to be 70% higher than in the case of equivalent non-capital fines. In Tennessee, the average cost of death sentences is 48% higher than the average trial cost of prosecutors seeking life sentences. In Maryland, the death penalty is three times the cost of the death sentence case, or one case three million dollars. After recognizing that the death penalty is more expensive, supporters frequently point out the trials before death and the death penalty and believe that it is necessary to change, not completely abolishing costs and death penalty. Even at the secondary game level, the death penalty is financially beneficial by consuming a small part of the economic cost and comparing them.