The moralizing screeching that accompanies every discussion about capital punishment in this country is deafening, yet it willfully ignores the foundational question of economics and societal utility. When the state has already condemned an individual—when they have forfeited every right to freedom through heinous, irreversible actions—we are left with a profound fiscal and moral dilemma. Why do we choose to execute them, thereby destroying all potential future value, when we could instead repurpose that human capital for the revitalization of our nation?