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The Capital Cost Factor in Texas

By Steve Hall

Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Mike Norman's latest is, "Here's a way Texas lawmakers can save tax dollars." Seeing as how the Texas Legislature is locked in tight on being all conservativey next year -- especially fiscal conservativey, given the forecast of a more than $20 billion budget shortfall -- this might be a good time to save money by abolishing the death penalty. Oh, I know, saving money is not a good reason not to kill somebody, but this situation is desperate. We absolutely have to cut the budget, and we know for sure it costs two or three times as much to sentence somebody to death and then pay for the automatic appeals process as it does to just keep them incarcerated for 40 years. Personally, I come at the death penalty from a different direction...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 12, 2010 (boomark / email).