The death penalty also kills innocent people and is applied arbitrarily with regard to race and/or socio-economic status.
It is also expensive. The major costs involve the required expert testimony and the punishment trial. Some would argue that the appeals processes take too long, but who could , in good conscience, place a time limit on proving one's innocence? A number of exonerees in Texas took an average of 9 years to prove their innocence. To have executed them would have meant killing innocent people, and allowing the actual murderers to remain free to kill again.
The cost of the death penalty will vary by state. In California it costs about 90,000 dollars more than life without the possibility of parole. Death penalty case costs were counted in Kansas through execution with a median cost of 1.26 million dollars. Non-death penalty case costs were counted through to the end of incarceration (median cost $740,000).
It depends on how much the appeals process costs the State. When a person is sentenced to Death, an automatic appeal is mandated. I'm not sure if the convict can choose to for go these appeals and just be put to death. That would be much much cheaper. I know that sometimes the appeals process costs more than just housing the convicted in prison for the rest of their lives.
At one time someone calculated that with all the appeals, it cost about 12 million dollars to put a person to death in a particular state. That is a lot of money for all the time spent by all the lawyers and judges. That is far, far more money that it would cost to keep that prisoner in maximum custody for the rest of his life. As long as people like to pay high taxes, we will have the death penalty.
The study estimates that the average cost to Maryland taxpayers for reaching a single death sentence is $3 million - $1.9 million more than the cost of a non-death penalty case. (This includes investigation, trial, appeals, and incarceration costs}.
a lot of money
$2.16 million per execution roughly.
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yes the death penalty costs money.
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The death penalty is much more expenseive than life in jail in Kentucky.
For. If most of the citizens in Texas did not want the death penalty, there would be no death penalty.
Now, no death penalty in Romania.
No,the state of Nebraska does not have the death penalty.
no, you dont die with the death penalty
No,the state of Missouri does not have the death penalty.
anti- death penalty i am a anti death penalty... because death penalty is not a human punishment..
I do not think that the death penalty is much of a deterrent, but is a fact that murderers who are put to death will kill no one else, and will not have his miserable life supported at taxpayers' expense.
No members of the EU use the Death Penalty.