Letter: Death penalty too costly for all involved

Published: Saturday, Nov. 24 2012 12:00 a.m. MST

In this Sept. 21, 2010 file photo is the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.

Eric Risberg, File, Associated Press

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The death penalty costs an exorbitant amount of money. I think if it were possible to cut all the endless appeals, and keep the lawyers from milking the system for years, the costs would come down.

The death penalty costs an exorbitant amount of money. I think if it were possible to cut all the endless appeals, and keep the lawyers from milking the system for years, the costs would come down. Cruel and unusual punishment is keeping someone locked up in death row for 25 or more years. It's cruel for the inmate and punishment for the taxpayers.

Doug Walters

Orem

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John Charity Spring

Back Home in Davis County, UT

Kalindra has fallen for the leftist propaganda. There is absolutely no proof that any innocent person has been executed in the last 20 years. That is simply a lie.

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8:34 a.m. Nov. 24, 2012
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Dektol

Powell, OH

Killing to show killing is not tolerated is asinine. Vengeance and revenge is the real reason. That "religious" types support is is a travesty. Their fixation on vengenace is of Satan, not any kind of God.

8:35 a.m. Nov. 24, 2012
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one old man

Ogden, UT

Well, let's see, DNA evidence examined after executions turned up at least three in Texas who were apparently executed wrongly.

After a man was executed -- again in Texas, I believe it was -- for having set fire to his home resulting More..

9:41 a.m. Nov. 24, 2012
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