John Allen Muhammad aka the DC Sniper was executed tonight by legal injection. He was sentenced to death after going on a killing spree in 2002 killing 10 people. I'm indifferent about the whole situation. I am NOT a supporter of execution. I feel there is no purpose in execution. The point of imprisonment is for the person to suffer for what they did. In a way, killing him took him out of his misery. His death does not solve anything. There's still no closure for the victim's families. It isn't going to bring back the people he murdered. I watched the live coverage on CNN and it was brutal hearing about his last moments. They described what he was wearing, how deep his last breaths were, how his body twitched as the injection flowed through him. It was just brutal. His attorney even broke down. I was tearing up, but I couldn't stop watching. Isn't it strange how we are attracted to the things that we can't handle? He was a killer, but I felt for him. And peep this......after his execution they bought up how he was mentally ill. Like, now you want to talk about how he's mentally ill??? THIS is why America pisses me off. The fact that they probably spent 2.3 million, YES MILLION, dollars on an execution and I'm walking past homeless people dying on the streets of New York City everyday kills. Everything in this country is backwards. And yes, I blame the entire country.
Look at how much the US is spending on the death penalty:
• The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life.
Taxpayers have paid more than $250 million for each of the state’s executions. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005)
• In Kansas, the costs of capital cases are 70% more expensive than comparable non-capital cases, including the costs of incarceration.
(Kansas Performance Audit Report, December 2003).
• In Indiana, the total costs of the death penalty exceed the complete costs of life without parole sentences by about 38%, assuming
that 20% of death sentences are overturned and reduced to life. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002).
• The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the
costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level. (Duke University, May 1993).
• Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in
prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each
execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000).
• In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at
the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992).
I'm moving to Sri Lanka,
TM
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