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Quote by: tman_ndsu08 Untrue.
The costs of keeping an inmate for 30+ years are millions more than killing him. | Tman, you are wrong: - http://www.njadp.org/forms/cost/Fina...20summary.html Quote: |
From a strictly financial perspective, it is hard to reach a conclusion other than this: New Jersey taxpayers over the past 23 years have paid more than a quarter billion dollars on a capital punishment system that has executed no one.
| http://www.njadp.org/forms/cost/Fina...20summary.html Quote: |
* The estimated cost of a death penalty case was 70% more than the cost of a comparable non-death penalty case. Death penalty case costs were counted through to execution (median cost $1.26 million). Non-death penalty case costs were counted through to the end of incarceration (median cost $740,000).
| http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...scid=7&did=918
many more examples at: - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...=7#From%20DPIC
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