The death penalty
States plagued by fiscal woes rethink their stance on the death penalty
   banned capital punishment. But that may change with the recession. As
   proposed an unusual measure to cut costs: eliminate the death penalty.
   administering the death penalty is even more expensive than keeping
   death penalty cost Maryland's taxpayers $186m between 1978 and 1999.
   almost $2m more than when the death penalty was not sought.
     * The death penalty: Reasonable doubtNov 27th 2008
   abolition bills describe the death penalty as an expensive programme
   with few benefits. There is little evidence that the death penalty
   death penalty, intends to spend the money it will save each year by
   eliminating capital punishment on an investigations unit. According to
   Eliminating the death penalty will finance the new unit and leave an
   the death penalty in Kansas, for example, are estimated at $500,000 for
   every case in which the death penalty is not sought.