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ABC News on the Cost Factor

By Steve Hall

Maya Srikrishnan posts, "Could Abolishing the Death Penalty Help States Save Money?," at ABC News.  There is video at the link. California has a $25 billion deficit and almost 700 inmates on death row. According to a 2008 report issued by the California Commission for the Fair Administration of Justice, maintaining the criminal justice system costs $137 million per year, but the cost would drop to $11.5 million if it weren't for the death penalty. A 2010 study from the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union found that California would be forced to spend $1 billion on the death penalty in the next five years if the state does not replace capital punishment with permanent imprisonment. California is not the only state where cost has become an argument for abolishing the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).