Reply #27: OK, so you admit that it's more expensive.

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I'm also sure that you know it's not effective as a deterrent. Are you aware that the death penalty is also applied with a racial bias? And that innocent people have been murdered by the state? Given all those things, what possible good does it do to have the death penalty? Is revenge really that important? If you say it's not about revenge, then I don't think you know what life without parole means. Yes, people on death row tend to try to get off it, most people don't like dying. But to say that something is good simply because prisoners don't like it is fairly poor reasoning.