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The death penalty costs more than life in prison? Source?

• cobalt 10y ago
  Plenty of articles if you google. Gist of it is that the repeals process and such take many years and often end up costing more. Most people are on death row for >10 years
• 1024core 10y ago
  "It’s 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive," http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/considering-the-death-penalty-your-tax-dollars-at-work http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/cons...
• Analemma_ 10y ago
  It's a pretty well-known fact that execution typically costs around 10 times more than life imprisonment. Here's a page with links to multiple peer-reviewed sources, covering multiple states: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty. The issue is that the appeals process is extremely expensive and time-consuming. You could conceivably simplify and streamline it (to the extent permitted by the Supreme Court, which has been mandating ever-stricter requirements for capital punishment cases), but that would make it even more unacceptably error-prone than it already is.
• raverbashing 10y ago
  I usually read this as "lawyers are asking for more money"