Of all the money that is spent on sentencing the death penalty the taxpayers them selves $580,000 dollars per case and for the prosecutors $365,000 and $218,000 in defense bills.
In a National Bureau of Economic Research report the extra cost of capital trials between 1982 - 1997 was $1.6 billion dollars. As well in a study by the Indiana Criminal Law Commission said that the total cost of the death penalty was 38% more than life with out parole, assuming that 20% of death penalty sentences are turned to life sentences.
The Joint Legislative Budget Comittee of California Legislature predicts that eliminating the death penalty in their state would save tens of millions of dollars.
One problem with the death penalty is that in recent years nearing 2000 and afterwords the number of people tried and executed haas nearly doubled in compared to the early 90's. With just 14 in 1991 to 66 in 2001. |
