Raised Taxes to Pay for the Death Penalty

A small county in Indiana has had it's taxes raised to pay for a case in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Imagine being anti-death penalty in that county. Imagine being anti-death penalty and someone who's already suffering financially because of the state of today's economy, and having your taxes raised to put someone to death. That is so backward, barbaric and wrong.

Still, I checked it out. I knew that Ohio has 88 counties, and I learned that at that time, 40 of them had sent no one to death row. 20 had one person on death row. Lake County (adjacent to Cleveland) had bankrupted its prosecutorial budget putting one person on death row. A handful had 3 or 5, a couple had 8 or 9, but nearly 60% of Ohio's death row came from Cleveland and Cincinnati. So, when politicians tells us the death penalty is for murder victims families, so they can have "closure," they are giving us a line, because most murder victim's families do not get the "justice" of the execution of the killer of their loved one. In fact, fewer than 1% of death-eligible murderers end up being executed.

NCADP - County Raises Taxes to Pay for Death Case March 26, 2009

You know, it saddens me that money is what's finally making a lot of people question the death penalty, but at the same time, I'm very happy it's being questioned.

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