You could try reading the article. Unlike many other prosecutors in the state, Jackson ... was personally opposed to capital punishment... He also considered i

You could try reading the article. Unlike many other prosecutors in the state, Jackson ... was personally opposed to capital punishment... He also considered it wasteful: because of the expense of litigation and the appeals process, it costs, on average, $2.3 million to execute a prisoner in Texas - about three times the cost of incarcerating someone for forty years.