Missouri execution on hold after late stay granted

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3. I hope that states with the DP someday realize that it's not only an ineffective

"deterrent" and only imposed for some sort of revenge, but it's also economically unsupportable. It is so much more expensive for the state to impose the DP. The prisoner gets appeal after appeal after appeal and the cost to an already financially strapped judicial system is enormous. Hell, some prisoners sentenced to the DP die of old age before the sentence is even carried out.

A very dear friend of mine I knew for 20 years was brutally murdered in 2012. The two creeps were quickly apprehended, tried & convicted, sentenced to life without parole, the automatic sentence for first degree murder here in Michigan. I am ok with that. These pieces of crap will live long, miserable, dreary lives in Jackson State Prison and the only way they will leave is in a box. That might sound like an awful way for me to feel to some of you, but my friend was wonderful--one of the defense attorneys said this was a difficult case because my friend was "such a great guy" and he was BRUTALLY murdered. They don't deserve to live happy lives.

I don't hold out much hope that TX, OK, or FL will abolish the DP anytime soon, but perhaps more states will see the light and abolish it.