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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Just admit you were wrong and move on, read my last post before this one, it shows how California will save nothing if they change that law. Your math is no more fact then mine so stop throwing the word fact into this when it clearly is not. Just because one person writes a report on a study they did does not make the results fact. I really hope you do not read the Inquirer.
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These are studies from universities, not some random opiniated columnist you quoted.
Just to add....
A recent Duke University study of North Carolina's death penalty costs found that the state could save $11 million a year by substituting life in prison for the death penalty. An earlier Duke study found that the state spent $2.1 million more on a death penalty case than on one seeking a life sentence.
The Tennessee Comptroller of the Currency recently estimated that death penalty trials cost an average of 48 percent more than trials in which prosecutors sought life sentences.
It was much the same story in Kansas. A state-sponsored study found that death penalty cases cost 70 percent more than murder trials that didn't seek the death penalty.
A Florida study found the state could cut its costs by $51 million simply by eliminating the death penalty.
But no state matches the dilemma of California, where almost 700 inmates are sitting on death row and, according to Natasha Minsker, author of a new report by the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, few will ever actually be put to death. In fact, she says, the odds against being executed are so great, murder suspects in California actually seek the death penalty because it is the only way to get a single room in the state's prison system.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/27...#ixzz28UIx683D