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More on Death Penalty Cost

By Steve Hall

"Just or Not, Cost of Death Penalty Is a Killer for State Budgets," is the title of a FOX News report by Ed Barnes.Capital murder trials and death row boondoggles are wreaking havoc on budgets across the country as many states are now rethinking the death penalty, which is enormously costly and rarely imposed even after successful prosecutions.Every time a killer is sentenced to die, a school closes.That is the broad assessment of a growing number of studies taking a cold, hard look at how much the death penalty costs in the 35 states that still have it.Forget justice, morality, the possibility of killing an innocent man or any of the traditional arguments that have been part of the public debate over the death penalty. The new one is this:The cost of killing killers is killing us...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).