If it's an "open and shut" case, where we know that individual did the killing it wouldn't cost the state but a twenty-two cent bullet between the eyes!  This is where everything is wrong!  Why, hold them on death row?  If the individual confesses, "bye-bye!"  Easy as that, they didn't give the individual they murdered an option, they shouldn't be given one either.  The entire system needs overhauled.  An eye for an eye, quit wasting our hard, working money.