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1 Ιουλ 2008 · The greatest costs associated with the death penalty occur prior to and during trial, not in post-conviction proceedings. Even if all post-conviction proceedings (appeals) were abolished, the death penalty would still be more expensive than alternative sentences.
16 Δεκ 2022 · Notable Cases in Which Death Sentences Were Rejected. A number of cases that resulted in life sentences in 2022 provided evidence of the continuing arbitrariness and disproportionality of capital punishment.
25 Νοε 2024 · The death penalty system costs California $137 million per year, while a system with lifelong imprisonment as the maximum penalty would cost $11.5 million, an almost 92% decrease in expense. The statistics are lower but comparable across other states, including Kansas, Tennessee, and Maryland.
Texas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country. The death penalty is escaping the decisive cost-benefit analysis to which every other program is being put in times of austerity.
16 Δεκ 2021 · Three high-profile cases — each involving likely innocent Black men sentenced to death for killing white victims — symbolized the enduring racial injustice of the nation’s death penalty. Julius Jones and Pervis Payne were spared execution, only to be resentenced to life in prison.
• The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level.
The most rigorous cost study in the country found that a single death sentence in Maryland costs almost $2 million more than a comparable non-death penalty case.
