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More on Cost in California

By Steve Hall

Today's Chico News & Review carries the editorial, "Death row?s high cost."Here?s a way Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can save the state more than $1 billion over the next five years: Convert all 700 death sentences in California to permanent imprisonment.The death-penalty system is clearly broken. For the past four years, executions have been on hold because of legal challenges to lethal injection. The courts are overburdened with death-penalty appeals, forcing other cases to wait years for hearing. The California Supreme Court spends almost one-third of its time on death-penalty cases. And, although California courts sent 29 people to death row last year, the state has executed only 13 people since 1967. That?s because it takes more than 25 years for a case to move through all the mandatory appeals?at tremendous taxpayer expense...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).