Case and Point

Here is a case and point of what I was referring to the other day with the death penalty. The state of New Jersey has now elected to suspend all executions, just like Illinois and Maryland in the past couple of years, due to significant evidence that they've executed innocents in recent years. They may very well decide not to use it in the state anymore, due to the imperfect science of the judicial syste and how much money the state wastes. Since the death penalty was implemented in Jersey in 1982, the state has spent $250 million more due to capital cases/sentences/executions as opposed to giving criminals in capitals cases a maximum sentence of life imprisonment without parole. That's over $10 million a year they could have saved to use on education, health care, etc. In other news, due to the Tookie Williams execution carried out in California last week by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria is now renaming a football stadium that was named after Schwarzenegger. No country in the EU has the death penalty and Austria wants to have no association with it. Next time Arrrrnahld says, "I'll be back" in terms of his home country of Austria, many people there won't greet him with open arms.