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'Death Penalty: Should Cost Be A Factor?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article from the Hartford Courant, which also reports on today's discussions by the Connecticut legislature as it is again considering a death penalty repeal bill.  Here are excerpts: Should legislators consider the cost of implementing the death penalty when deciding whether to abolish it? That's one of the questions the legislature's judiciary committee pondered Monday at a hearing on repeal of the death penalty. Susan Storey, the state's chief public defender, said the enormous cost of putting someone on death row in Connecticut ought to be considered by policy makers. Money devoted to prosecuting such cases would be far better spent on services supporting victims' families, she said. But state Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).