Are you talking about the financial cost? Due to the extra precautions around death row (including things like a more extensive appeals process and more securit

Are you talking about the financial cost? Due to the extra precautions around death row (including things like a more extensive appeals process and more security), it costs more to keep someone on death row and then execute them than it does to keep them in prison for life without parole. I'm not saying that this is the argument to use for abolishing the death penalty, but it's definitely not one for keeping it as it currently stands.