carl williams dead, page-117

"...and tens of thousands of tax dollars per annum.
A 9mm bullet costs about 20c. You do the math...."

Have you any idea how many resources it takes for society to kill a person via the legal system?

Think about it.

For the record, almost everybody associated with the ritual community killing of the last man in Australia, Ronald Ryan, is still traumatised by it.

The costs of incarcerating people are the costs of having a rational society, not one that kills its own.