The laws of California, and some other states, require automatic appeals in death penalty cases. This can drag on for years, running into millions of dollars in legal fees and court costs. Additional costs for guards, administrative overhead, etc. If you take the total amount spent in California on death row inmates over the last 50 years since the death penalty was reinstated and divide it by the number of executions it works out to roughly 250 million per execution.
The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005) http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm an everyday going church folk but I asked why sentence someone to double > life or something like that, why not fry them instead and I was told because > it's too expensive to fry them vs feeding and keeping them alive for the > rest of their lives. Who the heck has gotten the legal system to believe > this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338452 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
