You are telling me that housing someone at state expense for 40 years is cheaper than a court appointed lawyer running appeals? I don't believe that.

Besides if it's too expensive we should fix that instead of suspending justice.

Agreed. ****er should have been worm food long ago.

true, thats because the system is stupid

In its review of death penalty expenses, the State of Kansas concluded that capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. The study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The costs of appeals were 29% of the total expense, and the incarceration and execution costs accounted for the remaining 22%. In comparison to non-death penalty cases, the following findings were revealed:

The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases.

The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).

The appeal costs for death cases were 21 times greater.

The costs of carrying out (i.e. incarceration and/or execution) a death sentence were about half the costs of carrying out a non-death sentence in a comparable case.

Trials involving a death sentence averaged 34 days, including jury selection; non-death trials averaged about 9 days.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1080

That's how long it should take to execute them, at most.

I disagree unless certain criteria are met, one being irrefutable DNA evidence....too many wrongly convicted persons have been put to death already and to speed it up and risk greater error is unfathomable

Are you saying that the state pays less than $500,000 in total expenses to house someone on a life sentence for 30 or 40 years, until the end of their natural life?

Did anyone else notice that this guy killed an 81 year old man in 1978 and only served 14 years?

God has extended me grace. And, from that perspective, I try to extend it to others. However, God has put people in places of authority for a reason. If God wanted this guy to live, then no one could take his life.

As for me, I pray that he has changed. I pray that he has found God, than he is saved and that has been redeemed. I pray that somehow, despite the sorrow and tragedy that he has brought about, that God has used his life for God's work.

The story of Mosses would not have been possible without a Pharroh with a hardened heart. No telling what great works God was able to do with these tragedies.

pretty much...roughly 20k a year most studies will show

It's not so much that he deserves to die. It's moreso that I don't think he deserves to live. Exterminate the vermin.

Looks like the judicial system half-asses it when a life isn't on the line.

I was reading that Missouri spends on average 40k a year on an inmate to house and feed them.. Times that times 30, I would rather just spend the money now and get it over with.. Of course it is probably cheaper to kill them if the lawyers were not making 100's of millions of dollars off the cases..

Kind of like how the medical industry, insurance and hospitals want to charge me 42 dollars for a cotton swab..

Let's go back to the eye for an eye thing.

You steal....you get your hand cut off.
You rape.....you get raped......by a bat.

Excellent news that the stay was denied.....

This piece of shit will meet his maker....
About 15 years late, but in the end, it shall be done....

Peace to all that were affected by this POS actions....

Oh yeah, I remember this. Did they fry this POS yet?

It is currently scheduled for May 20th.....

No lawyer gets rich off the criminal justice system except privately hired lawyers representing really rich defendants like OJ Simpson or Leona Helmsley.

Since when do you get the death penalty for being an accomplice? Neither of the two guys that beat my uncle to death were given the death penalty.

Just imagine the support therman and co would have received if I hadn't started the negative tone on the first reply. I feel great remorse for those actions now.




Ride the lightening.

Yes therman initial post was very misleading.

You beat me do it. Death row lawyers are in it based on principle.

Dennis Skillicorn was exectued on May 20, 2009 in Missouri. The last time Missouri had an executed was in October 26, 2005.

ded

no offense to anyone intended....but, I support the death sentence.

If the victim's family appears on the signature list, I might be inclined to support their position. A convicted accomplice to murder gets no sympathy.

Good riddance.

FYP

To the ship!