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"Global financial crisis could put an end to the US death penalty," is by Tom Leonard in the UK's Daily Telegraph.Capital cases are typically more expensive because trials take longer, involve more lawyers and more frequently lead to appeals.Anti-capital punishment activists at the Death Penalty Information Centre (DPIC) estimate that executing a prisoner in Kansas costs 70 per cent higher than keeping him or her in prison ? $1.26 million compared to $740,000.The state has not executed anyone since 1976 but it has nine men on Death Row.Caroline McGinn, a Republican Kansas state senator, has proposed a bill banning the death penalty from July in order to cut the state's budget deficit.In Maryland, where the governor, Martin O'Malley, is supporting a death penalty repeal...continue to full post

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