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High Cost of Death Row

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's New York Times.  LINKTo the many excellent reasons to abolish the death penalty ? it?s immoral, does not deter murder and affects minorities disproportionately ? we can add one more. It?s an economic drain on governments with already badly depleted budgets.It is far from a national trend, but some legislators have begun to have second thoughts about the high cost of death row. Others would do well to consider evidence gathered by the Death Penalty Information Center, a research organization that opposes capital punishment.States waste millions of dollars on winning death penalty verdicts, which require an expensive second trial, new witnesses and long jury selections. Death rows require extra security and maintenance costs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).