This is where many come to loggerheads. What does it cost us the tax payers to imprison a killer for life. Many say the DP, from a humanitarian perspective, is wrong, while many justify an eye for an eye because of their being a burden to the tax payer, others justify the DP because the believe only in an eye for an eye. What quality of life is there to the killer in a cell for the remainder of their life? Why should we pay something on the order of $40,000 a year (I read that somewhere a long time ago) to keep them locked up?