QUOTE="Ignored Member, post: 3081882, member: 8613"]Lethal injection costs around $500 per execution.
A rope and a tree is under $50 and can be used multiple hundreds of times without needing new materials.
I am all for frugality too. A box of 50 suitable BJHP rounds can be had for less than $25. If a Glock was the instrument of delivery, we'd save even more as they do not require much in the way of maintenance between firings. But, if one insists on a more accurate accounting, factor in the occasional expenditure of a few drops of bore cleaner and a few drops of oil on a few cloth patches, and we are still at less than .60 cents per.[/QUOTE]
A rope and a tree is under $50 and can be used multiple hundreds of times without needing new materials.
I am all for frugality too. A box of 50 suitable BJHP rounds can be had for less than $25. If a Glock was the instrument of delivery, we'd save even more as they do not require much in the way of maintenance between firings. But, if one insists on a more accurate accounting, factor in the occasional expenditure of a few drops of bore cleaner and a few drops of oil on a few cloth patches, and we are still at less than .60 cents per.[/QUOTE]