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  Making killing an economic issue takes morality down to new depths. Early release of convicted felons is a mistake based on the same nonsense. If prison space is short maybe the courts should look at some of the others that are sent there. I once spent time in the local court (observing as part of a course) and the legal female repreenting DDC was asking for custodial sentances for rent arrears (obviously a good way to improve the debtors employability and thus ability to pay). How many others are taking up spaces that should be used to keep those that are a danger to society, rather than to somebody's budget, locked up and hopefully rotting away from decent people?
  
  Executed people can't do it again but then neither can innocent people wrongly convicted be apologised to. The death penalty damages the society that practices it and puts too much power into the hands of the legal and governmental elite that could too easily be turned against us all.
  No Roger, we will never agree on this one. The death penalty is wrong and no amount of spurious economics, appeals to religious writings, justifications for immoral revenge or ill-founded concepts of prevention will ever make it right.

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