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Is seeking a fourth death sentence a sound use of limited state resources?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is prompted by this effective local story out of California, which is headlined "Mounting costs to try killer Duncan for slaying of Beaumont boy fuel debate since death sentence awaits Duncan elsewhere."  Here are parts of the fascinating on-going story: The death penalty trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III already has cost Riverside County more than $167,000, and legal experts say the murder trial could total several million dollars by the time it's completed. Since January 2009, the Riverside County district attorney's office has been prosecuting Duncan, who has already been sentenced to death for murders in Idaho, in the 1997 killing, torture and sexual assault of 10-year-old Anthony Martinez of Beaumont...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).