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Nebraska Legislators Reject Cost Study

By Steve Hall

"How expensive is the death penalty?" is the title of Paul Hammel's report in today's Omaha World-Herald.State lawmakers easily defeated a proposal Wednesday that would have provided an answer to a much-debated question: How much does it cost Nebraska to have a death penalty?On a 30-15 vote, state senators shot down a proposal by Omaha Sen. Brenda Council to have the State Auditor?s Office study how much money is spent prosecuting and appealing death penalty cases, as well as the potential savings of repealing capital punishment.Council said Nebraska has never arrived at an accurate accounting of its death penalty costs. In neighboring Kansas, death penalty prosecutions were found to cost 16 times as much as cases resulting in sentences of life imprisonment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).