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By Steve Hall

Frank Baumgartner writes the OpEd, "Death penalty's vanishing point?" for the News & Observer of North Carolina.  He's a political science prof at UNC-Chapel Hill. In this time of fiscal stress, a new study by Duke economist Philip Cook suggests that the state could save $11 million per year if it stopped pursuing capital punishment. Is that a cost savings worth seeking, or would it be too radical a shift from current practices? Recent trends suggest that in fact, juries and prosecutors across the state have already dramatically reduced their attachment to the death penalty. Going the final step might produce large savings with little actual change from current practice. Consistently over the past decade, North Carolinians have suffered 500 to 600 homicides per year; the rate in 2008 (6...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).