Killing murderers may sound like the easiest way out of the problem. That is not exactly the truth, it brings more problems because capital punishment is expensive. The book Just Revenge: Cost and Consequences of the Death Penalty by Mark Costanzo states how expensive it is to give a prisoner the death penalty. Just to keep a prisoner in life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) is from $750,000 to $1.1 million per prisoner (Costanzo, pg. 60). Although it may seem expensive, keeping the prisoners in prison is cheaper than the death penalty. According to Costanzo, “Between 1977 and 1996, California spent more than $1 billion on its death penalty but managed to execute only five men (Costanzo, pg. 61).” If executing prisoners costs more than just
