yes
> 2) It's bloody expensive (~3x more than simple incarceration)
don't care
> 3) There's no evidence to support it as a deterrent
right
> 4) It leaves no room for appeal and thus denies due process
this contradicts your (2). There seems to me to be quite a bit of scope for appeal, in light of the time between conviction and sentence, tho this has contracted in the past ten years, more in some states than others.
> 5) It's cruel and unusual
(a) is irrelevant; (b) untrue
> 6) It's barbaric; aren't we past that?
matter of taste
> 7) It inflicts punishment on survivors of the deceased who weren't
> convicted
Another example of victim erasure; what about survivors of victims?
> Maybe there's more; I didn't give it more than about 20 seconds of
thought.
> /jordan
You did all right.
mbs