Just or Not, Cost of Death Penalty Is a Killer for State Budgets
   cold, hard look at how much the death penalty costs in the 35 states
   debate over the death penalty. The new one is this:
   "There have been studies of costs of the death penalty before, but we
   C. Dieter of the non-partisan Death Penalty Information Center.
   death penalty and narrow defeats for legislation that would have
   largely by the costs the death penalty imposes on states. The numbers,
   death penalty trials than they would have paid for trials not seeking
   A recent Duke University study of North Carolina's death penalty costs
   in prison for the death penalty. An earlier Duke study found that the
   state spent $2.1 million more on a death penalty case than on one
   that death penalty cases cost 70 percent more than murder trials that
   didn't seek the death penalty.
   simply by eliminating the death penalty.
   suspects in California actually seek the death penalty because it is
   30 years have been executed," Minsker said. "The death penalty in
   billion by eliminating the death penalty and imposing sentences of life
   death penalty: spend $400 million to build a new death-row prison to
   impact? Death penalty opponents say the recession has given their
   death penalty expert, says that major changes are not likely to occur
   penalty" he said, but that is not what the death penalty is about.
   The death penalty "provides a sense of justice to the system, is a just
   support the death penalty. And that isn't going to change."