08-24-2012, 01:59 PM
(08-24-2012, 01:56 PM)username Wrote:(08-24-2012, 01:36 PM)ESAD Wrote: Bullshit, that is not true.
The state's 714 death row prisoners cost $184 million more per year than those sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A death penalty prosecution costs up to 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case.
The least expensive death penalty trial costs $1.1 million more than the most expensive life-without-parole case.
Jury selection in a capital case runs three to four weeks longer and costs $200,000 more than in life-without-parole cases.
The state pays up to $300,000 for attorneys to represent each capital inmate on appeal.
The heightened security practices mandated for death row inmates added $100,663 to the cost of incarcerating each capital prisoner last year, for a total of $72 million.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/20/...s-20110620
Yeah but thats becoz they make most of them wait on death row in super wings of prisons for 10-20 years before they kill them, unless they are niggers.
if they just killed them when they were sentanced to death, they would save every coin of that.