Comments on: Inmate Passes Away On Alabama’s Death Row

By: jesse Guzman

jesse Guzman — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:38:34 +0000

I have to say if thats how much money is being spend for inmates on death row. Then we have A serious problem. Someone is messing up. Why in the world would we spend that much money on a murderer? No wonder we have crimes, and poverty. Our currency is being spend in the wrongplace.

By: MADD

MADD — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:57:47 +0000

The Bible says not to kill, but it also says an eye for an eye. Why don’t we give these murders the same respect they give their victims none!!! Our government is so screwed up. Give the murders time and all they do is milk the system. There should not be a system for them to milk. Shot,stabbed,chocked to death, raped and then killed, no matter what they should receiver the same punishment as they dished out to their victims.

By: insane

insane — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:49:12 +0000

Just an excerpt I read from an online “The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime,” Deiter said. “Some of the states with the highest number of executions also have the highest homicide rates. Studies have shown it can cost more than $30 million to carry out an execution. Only one in 10 death penalty cases results in an execution and when you combine the legal fees for the appeals of all of those defendants, it makes that one execution very costly. That money could be better spent on hiring more police officers, installing better lighting in high-crime areas, providing education aimed at preventing crime and doing other things to make sure crimes do not happen.”site..
If this is indeed true we should just bring back hanging.

By: Fry Him

Fry Him — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:13:52 +0000

To Price of Death;
Where does this $2 million dollar number come from? I find that hard to believe.
If that is true, I would say something is seriously not right. So, who or what is this 2 mil going to. Meds to kill do not cost that, the person who flips the switch only gets $175 extra pay (at Holman). Thats absolutely insane! IF it is true, I’d like to see an itemized sheet on the cost of each item – probably like the rest of our govt/president (notice I didn’t use a capital letter in president-he doesn’t deserve it!) just another way of screwing taxpayers out of more money! This is not the land of freedom anymore-its the land of shame!

By: LEO GUY

LEO GUY — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:30:47 +0000

Yeah, that’s a real shame. Next!

By: typical

typical — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:40:15 +0000

@ SHO-NUFF, to kind of answer your question inmates are entitled to more than one appeal. they get either 5 or 8 (at least in florida they do) and they have so many years in which to file those appeals. Then after those are exhausted they have other avenues in which they can try to get a sentence reduction or other means of getting off death row.

@ price of death – if those numbers are correct for the state of alabama (i’m going to take your word that they are since I haven’t looked) that still doesn’t factor in all of his chronic medical conditions, dental, mental health issues (assuming he saw a counselor at any time during his incarceration) and other fees. Inmate medical care can become insanely expensive if they have to leave the prison for outside care, not only does the state have the outside medical costs they also have to supply the man power to sit with the inmate and transport the inmate (transport costs fuel, overtime for officers, or ambulance fee or rarely life flight fees) not to mention if he had on going lab work, ekg, xray ect for his conditions. So while the cost of housing and feeding him may have been lower in cost for the amount of years he was actually on death row compared to the cost of execution i’m going go out on a limb and say his medical costs compounded that number majorly. (and lets not forget that he would most likely have been on death row for many more years before his execution which would have added to the $200,000+ number you had for expenses so far)

By: Chris V.

Chris V. — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:34:22 +0000

What if the guy was innocent? There was a documentary I watched a few years back, called “The Thin Blue Line.” I recommend everybody should watch it.
The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris, depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to life in prison for a murder he did not commit. Adams’ case was reviewed and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film’s release.
He spent twelve years in prison for something he did not do; and he was placed on the table thrice (I think it was), strapped to the table twice….when, at the last moment, the call came into the room that another appeal came up, etc….
Interesting to watch….and the guy that really did do the crime…..well, you have to watch to find out what became of him.

By: Price of death

Price of death — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:58:32 +0000

Do any of you actually know the cost of execution? It cost $43 a day today to,house an inmate. So if we apply that to the time he was housed in prison that is a little over $298,000. To execute a death row inmate can cost a over $2 million per execution. So with him passing away, Alabama actually saved money.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:14:58 +0000

Cheat the hangman.

By: SHO-NUFF

SHO-NUFF — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:03:40 +0000

I don’t understand how the convicted stay on death row for so many years.
The guilty are entitled an appeal, but almost 17 years?

I bet there are plenty in the graveyard wrongfully convicted and executed. With modern DNA evidence, it is rare for someone to be wrongfully convicted, as it was years ago.

I don’t know if it is right to take a life, because the Bible says not to kill. The best thing to do is not live a life that will get you on death row in the first place.