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The Cost of the Death Penalty

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Boston Globe.  LINKIT MAY BE too soon to call it a trend, but two states have abolished the death penalty in the past three years, and 10 others have legislation pending. States and voters are reconsidering capital punishment, and many have a new reason: money. Cost was one of the factors New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson cited when he signed repeal legislation last month. Richardson, a former supporter of capital punishment, said he had traveled "a long personal journey on the issue." But polls show New Mexico voters broadly supported the repeal, which replaces the death penalty with life in prison without parole. New Jersey abolished its death penalty in 2007. Even more striking was the recent vote in the New Hampshire House to end capital punishment there, since it came shortly after the state handed down its first death sentence in 50 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).