1. They haven't been convicted of anything yet.
2. The state should not have the right to kill its citizens.
3. It would help to study people like this to better understand what makes them tick
There's three.
He asked for valid reasons not lefty excuses.
I don't know JLM. A quick google shows horrendously high costs to kill someone. I just grabbed this link because I used to take quite an interest in the psychology of what it did for it's victims, and what wardens of prisons thought...
anyhow, for what it's worth:
California
Assessment of Costs by Judge Arthur Alarcon and Prof. Paula Mitchell (2011, updated 2012)
The authors concluded that the cost of the death penalty in California has totaled over $4 billion since 1978:
The authors calculated that, if the Governor commuted the sentences of those remaining on death row to life without parole, it would result in an immediate savings of $170 million per year, with a savings of $5 billion over the next 20 years.
- $1.94 billion--Pre-Trial and Trial Costs
- $925 million--Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petitions
- $775 million--Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals
- $1 billion--Costs of Incarceration
That is because of a defective legal system that protects criminals and makes lawyers rich at taxpayer's expense. In some cases with dubious evidence that makes sense but when there is no doubt as in these bas tards lived in the house it makes a mockery of justice and just adds to the suffering of the three women.