Comments by "wishsnfishs" (@Umbrellagasm) on "Forbes Breaking News"
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@mikerhonevich481 As a firearm owner I am well aware of the cost of ammunition; and besides if the substantive costs of capital punishment were accrued by the methods themselves, we might as well make like the Khemer Rouge and use rocks and sticks.
A report by the Indiana Legislative Services Agency, prepared for the General Assembly, examined murder cases from 2000-2007 and found the average lifetime cost (legal+incarceration) of a death penalty case to be $505,773, whereas life without parole cases cost $151,547.
A 2008 study by the Urban Institute on the costs of the death penalty in Maryland between 1978 and 1999 found "...an average capital-eligible case in which prosecutors did not seek the death penalty will cost approximately $1.1 million over the lifetime of the case. A capital-eligible case in which prosecutors unsuccessfully sought the death penalty will cost $1.8 million and a capital-eligible case resulting in a death sentence will cost approximately $3 million."
A study by The Dallas Morning News found that death penalty cases cost Texas an average of $2.3 million, while high security life without parole cost $750,000 for 40 years. A newspaper may not the most scholarly source, but I include it because some people think any study from a university or government agency is part of some anarcho-communist conspiracy.
A casual search will find the overwhelming majority of studies coming to the same conclusion.
So I reiterate that the death penalty is a huge waste of taxpayer resources, and certainly not an agenda that I want my taxdollars frivolously spent upon.
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