[mrbeast]

The reason for the rising cost of the prison population is because there are simply too many people sitting in prisons. Surely society would benefit from more constructive forms of punnishment being implemented for lesser crimes. In the UK prisons are bulging with persistant though minor offenders that learn nothing from their incarceration except better ways of commiting crime. IIRC in the US there is the '3 strikes' system which has produced anomalous situations of repeat shoplifters being handed 25 year sentances for example. I would suggest its these people who cost vast sums of funds for prisons not convicted murders on life sentances.

The argument that it is cheaper to sentance someone to death than it is to hand them a life sentance is false.

Sentancing someone to death is not cheap it costs around 2 or 3 million dollars to carry out an execution and pay for all the court costs of appeals added to the cost of housing an inmate while this goes on. Its actually cheaper to keep a prisoner in prison for an average life sentance than it is to put them on death row.