REALITY?: Expenses of a Death Sentence
According to this AP article by Deborah Hastings, “In hard times, executions become question of cost” the expense involved–mainly in judicial costs–to apply the death penalty overwhelms the expenses of a life sentence.
I applaud those states who will propose doing away with the death penalty. Sure wish it was based on something akin to the immorality of taking a life rather than a reason of money though.
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