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According to Alarcón and Mitchell, California has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since 1978, and death penalty trials are 20 times more expensive than trials seeking a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. [99] Studies in other states show similar patterns. [100] [101]
In Tennessee, federally prosecuted capital trials where the death penalty is sought cost about 50% more than those where it is not, and 29% of these sentences are overturned on appeal.
The huge costs associated with the death penalty are a very good argument for doing away with it -- as though the possibility of executing an innocent person weren't good enough on its own ...
California hasn’t executed a condemned prisoner in nearly 20 years, but prosecutors continue to seek the death penalty, leading to court costs of more than $300 million in the last five years ...
Since then, more than 8,500 defendants have been sentenced to death; [9] [10] of these, more than 1,605 have been executed. [11] [12] [13] Most executions are carried out by states. [3] For every 8.2 people executed, one person on death row has been exonerated, in the modern era. [14]
If the state has no death penalty, the judge must select a state with the death penalty for carrying out the execution. [39] The federal government has a facility and regulations only for executions by lethal injection, but the United States Code allows U.S. Marshals to use state facilities and employees for federal executions. [40] [41]
(A 2013 study found that death penalty cases lasted, on average, 148 days vs. life-in-prison cases, which lasted roughly 24 days ; a 2014 Department of Justice report noted that the average time ...
Additionally, seeking the death penalty is more costly to the state and taxpayer than seeking life without parole. [50] A common argument against life without parole is that it is equally as immoral as the death penalty, as it still sentences one to die in prison.