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Death Penalty Walking

By Dr. Michael Blankenship

The death penalty costs millions, but is only successful in a handful of cases. After hundreds of years of application and thousands of executions, why can't we get it right? Perhaps because the death penalty can never work as intended?read more | digg storyStudies have consistently shown that seeking and imposing a death sentence is 2-5 times greater than the cost of a life sentence without parole. The irony is that even with the greater cost, the the capital litigation system is severely underfunded. For example, of the approximately 660 death row inmates in the California system, over 200 have no legal representation during their appeals. This condition is repeated around the country. Such circumstances undermine the ideal laid out by the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on January 03, 2008 (boomark / email).