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  2. Capital Punishment, 2010 - Statistical Tables

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    At yearend 2010, the death penalty was authorized by 36 states and the federal government (table 1). While New Mexico repealed the death penalty in 2009 (Laws 2009, ch. 11 § 5), the repeal was not retroactive. As of December 31, 2010, New Mexico held two men under previously imposed death sentences, and one person was awaiting sentencing

  3. Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California — but the ...

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    But a 2021 report by the state’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code estimated that a death penalty proceeding adds $500,000 to $1.2 million to the cost of a murder trial.

  4. Price of death: What we know about execution costs as ... - AOL

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    “Even assuming seeking the death penalty costs more than imposing fixed-life sentences, such costs would be justified. Capital punishment brings closure to victims of crimes and serves a ...

  5. Capital punishment by the United States federal government

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    In the late 1980s, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, from New York State, sponsored a bill to make certain federal drug crimes eligible for the death penalty as he was frustrated by the lack of a death penalty in his home state. [13] The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 restored the death penalty under federal law for drug offenses and some types of murder. [14]

  6. 2012 California Proposition 34 - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of Prop. 34 cite the cost of implementing the death penalty as a major motivating factor behind the initiative. [8] A 2011 study by former prosecutor and federal judge Arthur Alarcón indicates that California has spent approximately $4 billion to execute 13 people since the death penalty was reinstated. [ 9 ]

  7. The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints is a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series. It presents selections of contrasting viewpoints on the death penalty : first surveying centuries of debate on it; then questioning whether it is just; whether it is an effective deterrent; and whether it is applied fairly.

  8. Unknown costs, legal challenges: Idaho bill to expand death ...

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    A proposed law hoped to start a chain of appeals up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  9. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act to streamline the appeal process in capital cases. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, who had endorsed capital punishment during his 1992 presidential campaign. [98]