Tsarnaev Death Expensive Justice: James Fox
18th May 2015
The troubling fact is that none of this, neither the financial cost nor the emotional toll, was necessary. After all, the defense team, long before admitting their client’s responsibility for the bombings on the very first day of trial, was willing to enter a guilty plea if the government agreed to take the death penalty off the table in favor of life without parole. Would that have been so bad?
Yes.
Sure, critics would have complained about the high cost of housing and feeding Tsarnaev as a guest of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. They failed to recognize that this expense is a drop in the justice system bucket compared with the millions upon millions of dollars spent on prosecuting him.
One round of .45 ACP is 64 cents if you buy it in bulk. I’d be happy to pull the trigger for free. Hell, I’d pay my own expenses there and back pro bono publico.
May 19th, 2015 at 08:14
Perhaps we should cut a deal with China for executions. They bill the family for the bullet, then sell any usable organs to help offset prison costs.
We could clear some serious prison space and empty Guantanamo, and just let the Reds get their profit from the back side.