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According to the assessment, the death penalty cost California $1.94 billion in additional pre-trial and trial costs from 1978-2011. The post-trial costs were almost as high- $925 million for automatic appeals and state habeas corpus petitions, and $775 million for federal habeas corpus appeals.
A 2011 article by Arthur Alarcon, long-time judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, and law professor Paula Mitchell, concluded that "since reinstating the death penalty in 1978, California taxpayers have spent roughly $4 billion to fund a dysfunctional death penalty system that has carried out no more than 13 executions." [33]
20 Ιουν 2011 · The least expensive death penalty trial costs $1.1 million more than the most expensive life-without-parole case. Jury selection in a capital case runs three to four weeks longer and costs ...
17 Απρ 2023 · The authors concluded that the cost of the death penalty in California has been over $4 billion since 1978. Breakdown of Costs in California’s Death Penalty System. Pre-Trial and Trial Costs: $1.94 billion. 1,940 capital trials x $1 million per trial = $1.94 billion. California has conducted approximately 1,940 capital trials since 1978.
1 Ιουλ 2008 · In California the current system costs $137 million per year; it would cost $11.5 million for a system without the death penalty. California Commission for the Fair Administration of Justice, July 2008. The greatest costs associated with the death penalty occur prior to and during trial, not in post-conviction proceedings.
2 Μαρ 2009 · In total, the death penalty system cost California taxpayers $137 million each year, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice found, whereas permanent imprisonment for all those currently on death row would cost just $11 million.
20 Ιουν 2011 · A new study of California’s death penalty found that taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, or $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then.
