Waterboy ! Haha it was a movie we ' d always watch around he holidays at my dad ' s . My favorite was the marriage scene <| sep |> The degree of humanity with which we act should not be dictated by monetary cost . That aside , no it ' s not cheaper executions are expensive because there are a lot of automatic appeals and processes which must be followed . Even if there are specific instances where it appears that a person is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt , there are still many cases where people have been executed and later discovered to be innocent . That alone is sufficient to preclude any civilized society from employing the death penalty and why the Western nations excluding the US have given them up .