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Death, Taxes, and Dry Cleaning?

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

New reports were released last week focusing on the financial and geographic aspects of the death penalty system in California. Link to them here.In a blog about it, I note this:The Hidden Death Tax also reveals some startling figures that you wouldn't expect to find on an expense sheet for prosecuting a death penalty case. But there it is, on Page 26 of the report, a dry-cleaning bill of $937.45, and a $387 worth of oil changes, car washes and smog checks.Makes you wonder if some prosecutor's head might be rolling just about now? Nahhh.... I am sure there is justification for that somewhere in the details.... Read the full blog post here.--abe

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).