An article in the New York Times raises an interesting point in the debate on capital punishment:
“The cost of our system of capital punishment is so enormous that any benefit that could be obtained from it — and now I think there’s very little or zero benefit — is so dollar-wasteful that it serves no effective purpose.”
“The cost is the most politically neutral argument,” said Paula M. Mitchell, a Loyola Law School professor and one of the authors of the report. “We’ve debated the morality of the death penalty for decades. We’ve tried very hard to focus on the objective cost issue, because that’s something that people who differ on all the other issues can reach a consensus on.”
The colonization of every aspect of life by economics has finally branched out to ethics now, too. Let us please not consider morality and look at capital punishment as an economic issue, ok?
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