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Answering the hard questions: Cost

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Capital Punishment is a far more expensive system than one whose maximum penalty is life without the possibility of parole.According to a New Jersey study conducted by New Jersey Policy Perspectives, between 1983 and 2005, N.J. taxpayers paid $253 million more for their death penalty system than they would have for a system that only seeks life without parole as its maximum punishment.A 1993 North Carolina study conducted by Duke University found that the state spends $2.16 million more per execution than on a non-death penalty murder case.A 2008 Maryland study conducted by the Urban Institute found that the total cost of the death penalty to Maryland taxpayers for cases that began 1978 to 1999 to be at least $186 million. Furthermore, the total cost to the taxpayers of Maryland per death penalty case is $3 million, more than $1...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).