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Capital Costs in North Carolina

By Steve Hall

"Study: End death cases, save money," is the title of Mandy Locke's report in the News & Observer. If the state stopped trying to execute killers, it would free up $11 million a year, according to a study by a Duke University economist published this month.There is little return on the dollars spent on seeking the death penalty, says Philip Cook, an economist at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy. Of the 1,034 people charged with murder in North Carolina in 2005 and 2006, prosecutors initially sought the death penalty against about a quarter of them. Only 11, though, were sentenced to death for their crimes."The idea that the state could spend so much money on someone they think is completely undeserving is very interesting," Cook said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).