A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania can sue prison officials for alleged cruel and unusual punishment.
The death penalty is significantly more expensive than life in prison actually.
A preliminary study by South Dakotans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, examining first-degree murder cases since 1985 that have resulted in a death sentence or life in prison, found that on average, legal costs in death penalty cases exceeded those in the other cases by $353,105.[24]
There is no fix. You can’t make it cheaper… it’s as expensive as it is because you have to be certain without a shadow of a doubt, which means many legal cases and appeals and whatnot. Unfortunately even after all of that, 200 people have still been sentenced to death and later exonerated. Many innocent people were executed before being posthumously exonerated… https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/innocence
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The death penalty is significantly more expensive than life in prison actually.
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There is no fix. You can’t make it cheaper… it’s as expensive as it is because you have to be certain without a shadow of a doubt, which means many legal cases and appeals and whatnot. Unfortunately even after all of that, 200 people have still been sentenced to death and later exonerated. Many innocent people were executed before being posthumously exonerated… https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/innocence