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I guess we have become a soft society, wouldn't want to violate a criminals civil rights.(they need to have their air conditioning, TV, ect.) It's probably a good thing I'm not in charge, I have zero tolerence for criminals. If they are guilty without a DOUBT (several witnesses-TV videoed them, I saw them, ect) they wouldn't even get a chance for some court to find a loophole, it would be straight to sentencing and I don't really care why they did it, insanity pleas are absolutely STUPID.

Either way, we, the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Just hang him.

seamusTX wrote:Death-penalty trials are more expensive than non-death capital murder trials for several reasons:

• If the defendant is indigent, which they nearly always are, the county has to pay for public defenders that are qualified to defend death-penalty cases.
• Death penalty cases are more complicated and take longer.
• Often they require expert witnesses.
• They are automatically appealed, which the county has to pay for.
• They can be appealed time and again by pro-bono groups like The Innocence Project or a prisoner who becomes an amateur lawyer in prison, with the state paying for its side of appeals (I think it goes on the state's budget at that point).

Counties have limited budgets (though Dallas no doubt has a huge one). If they pull out all the stops for a few capital murder cases, they end up giving easy plea bargains or even losing other prosecutions because they can't take them all to trial.

I don't make the rules, so I'm asking in advance please don't get mad at me.

- Jim

So does all this add up to more than "housing" him for 30 years?

seamusTX wrote:Capital murder, no death penalty, life in prison without parole.

Killing a security guard during a robbery was bad enough, but the the subsequent armed robbery at a church is going to have the prosecutors salivating like starving pit bulls.

Death penalty prosecution is too expensive and iffy with jury trials.- Jim

Sorry, could you explain?
More expensive than supporting the piece of trash for the next 30 years?