Question

I wonder if any of you have given thought to the waste which is presented 
to 
us by the methods presently used to enforce capital punishment?

We provide people who have committed heineous crimes with a trial and then 
put them in a private room where they are fed and clothed while being 
supervised with round-the-clock 24 hour a day 7 day per week supervision 
and 
care.  During this time they are provided with appeal after appeal and may 
finally, after many years of living in these conditions, be lead down a 
corridor and caused to lie down on a table and then given an injection 
which 
puts them to sleep forever.  

All of this at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars.  

What do we, society, receive in return?  Retribution--perhaps, 
justice--never.

I am of the opinion that it would be better to take the convicted and put 
them to work on projects and in programs where they would provide social 
benefit to society.  thTs could be done while their "appeals" are being 
fought in the courts.  My idea of socially beneficial work would be to send 
them to places such as Cherynobl where they could undertake the 
safeguarding 
of society through the maintenance and repair of the damage which lies 
there. 
 There are numerous other locations, such as Love Canal and who knows where 
else that such societal benefical work could be performed.  If the party 
were 
to be found ultimately liable for the crimes which they had committed at 
the 
end of their appeal process, the work which they performed would pay part 
of 
the cost of those appeals.  If they were found to be not criminally 
responsible, they could be paid a fair compensation for the work which they 
performed.

The need for environmental clean up is paramount.  The need for people who 
will perform this work is important to society.  What better place to 
locate 
such workers than amongst the condemned of the world?

Ibrahim