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"Lawmaker questions cost of new death room," is Cy Ryan's report in today's Las Vegas Sun.Building a new prison execution chamber north of Las Vegas would cost $1.6 million to $1.7 million, and one state legislator wants to know: Why the high cost when it?s seldom used. ?Don?t we just need four walls?? Assemblyman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, said of the death chamber, which is part of a proposed $221 million new prison. The execution chamber is now at the 147-year-old Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Gov. Jim Gibbons is recommending that prison be closed and the new prison be built about 35 miles north of Las Vegas. Howard Skolnik, director of the state Corrections Department, told the joint Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees the present chamber is ?very intimidating? to the family of victims and there is no access for the handicapped...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).