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The hidden costs of the death penalty: California

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The California death penalty costs well over a $100 million each year. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California will release in a few hours will release “The Hidden Death Tax” looking at records of actual trial expenses and state budgets to calculate the real world fiscal costs of California’s death chamber. Specifically: ? California taxpayers pay at least $117 million each year post-trial seeking execution of the people currently on death row; ? Executing all of the people currently on death row, or waiting for them to die there of other causes, will cost California an estimated $4 billion more than if they had been sentenced to die in prison of disease, injury, or old age; ? California death penalty trials have cost as much as $10...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).