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cpr4life8 t1_j8zy8tw wrote

Reply to comment by G65434-2 in Pennsylvania lawmaker to introduce legislation repealing death penalty by Waterwebgrasshopper

https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Is_the_death_penalty_more_expensive_than_life_in_prison#:~:text=The%20study%20found%20%E2%80%9CCombining%20all,but%20wasn't%5D.%E2%80%9D

"In the six states that have abolished capital punishment over the past decade, Republican and Democratic officials have also emphasized the cost of the death penalty as a major rationale. Even in states that retain the punishment, cost has played a central role in the conversion narratives of conservative lawmakers, public officials, and others who question the death penalty as a waste of taxpayer dollars.[4][5]"

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affenage t1_j8zwq3i wrote

Reply to Pennsylvania lawmaker to introduce legislation repealing death penalty by Waterwebgrasshopper

Life without parole, even though taxpayers fund the upkeep for the prisoner is LESS EXPENSIVE than a death sentence. With a death sentence, there are years of mandatory appeals, with high priced suitable state funded defense teams, and the prisoner lives in more expensive accommodations due to increased security, sometimes for years, sometimes forever, until the death sentence is actually carried out. The biggest reason I always hear people use in support of the death penalty is not wanting to pay to support these people and to just be rid of them - but it is the more expensive option!

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IamSauerKraut t1_j8zvam2 wrote

Reply to comment by the_dorf in What the best lesser known towns and cities in the state? by ba1993

G/burg's downtown is plenty crowded during the summer. Check out the chocolate shop, the Christmas Haus shop and the Polish Pottery shop. Then go down to Mr. G's for the ice cream. :-) If you time it right, you might catch a Bullets xc race in the northern end of town.

There's a craft cheese maker east of Newburg but I've not located it yet.

Further west, one of these days, imma head over to Port Royal and follow either Rt 35 or 75 up the Tuscarora Creek. Reed's Gap, McCoysville, East Waterford, Waterloo, all the way down to 76 and then back up.

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