Medical is harder to come up with for an easy number, but I came up with $383,250 if you have 3 meals a day for 50 years with the meals costing $7 on average each.
You obviously are completely oblivious to the kind of food served in prison.
And about the death penalty, even if it is more expensive, it really eliminates problems. Really. And of course, if it is more expensive, then make it cheaper. They do it each day for things that really deserve what is being paid for them, then why not for something that just affects criminals? It's not as if every needle had to be sterilized, or even use them at all. I'm sure a bullet well placed can do the same effect.
I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with tasking my government with "hey, go find the most cheap and efficient way to eliminate human beings."
