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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

Remember that in America you basically serve a 20-30 year sentence before being executed and you're allowed unlimited appeals, plus the special level of security they have to use with death row prisoners. It's certainly credible that it costs that much.

However, in somewhere like China where I imagine "justice" is a little swifter I suspect the cost per execution is dramatically lower.

I remember reading that in China the family of the prisoner put to death (usually by a shot to the back of the head) is sent the bill for the bullets used. Taking this, and the ££'s or $$'s paid for the dead convicts various organs used in transplants, into account I guess death row is a fiscal winner for the Chinese.

I'm not saying it's right though.