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3.      Each time that a convicted murderer is Sentenced to Life Without Parole our Punctured Public Purse is again sentenced to Death by a Thousand Cuts

The average cost per inmate serving a Sentence of Life Without Parole (based on the average annual cost of Maximum Security Incarceration in 2019) across 76 Heinous Murderers that murdered 200 Australians (profiled in Section B) over the last 30 years is $7,000,559 per inmate.  The total cost of Maximum Security Incarceration across these 76 Heinous Murderers will be a smidgeon over half a billion Australian dollars.  Yet as at 30 June 2019, 2,088 inmates were serving a Sentence of '20 years and over', 'Life Sentence' or 'Other', that includes 1,790 that have been convicted of Murder.  Therefore the strain on the Public Purse to incarcerate nearly all of these 76 Heinous Murderers (profiled in Section B) until they die in a prison cell is merely the tip of a large iceberg beneath that materially inhibits available funding of other necessary Social Services.

Between 1989 and 1993 Ivan Milat viciously and sadistically murdered seven backpackers, aged 19 to 22, in the Belanglo State Forest, 15 kilometres from Berrima NSW.  Five of the victims were foreign backpackers visiting Australia (three German, two British).  Two were Australian travellers from Melbourne.  Five of the seven victims were females.  Ivan Milat attempted suicide at least twice, cost the Aust. taxpayer $175,000 pa for 23 years in jail = $4.025m.  Then high hospital costs were incurred with an armed guard required.  Most Australians would agree that Ivan Milat should have been executed, but the laws did not allow him to be sentenced to the same penalty that he bestowed on those seven trusting backpackers.

Martin Bryant is serving 35 life sentences, plus 1,035 years, all without the possibility of parole in Hobart's Risdon Prison.  He should have been executed in 1998.  Jailing Martin Bryant will cost the taxpayer over $8m circa by the time that he dies in jail

Maximum Security Incarceration (until they die) of the five convicted rape/killers of nurse, Anita Cobby, in 1985 will ultimately cost the NSW Public Purse $45.5 million circa.  

'Never to be Released' lists several other heinous criminals that should have been Sentenced to execution.

 

 

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