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Tennessee Judge Makes History on Cost Ruling

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

A new development in the widely publicized trial of Lemaricus Davidson, found guilty this week of the brutal murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville: Judge Richard Baumgartner ruled today for the first time in Knox County judicial history that he will instruct Davidson's jury that it is more expensive to execute Davidson than to give him life without parole. Baumgartner will cite a 2004 cost study by the Tennessee Comptroller. This is the same study cited by the Comptroller's office in testimony provided to the Death Penalty Study Committee in 2007 in which the comptroller admitted that the 2004 study did not actually account for the full cost of the death penalty system to taxpayers as there is no centralized way to track the data in Tennessee...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on October 29, 2009 (boomark / email).