Posted by Dave on 03/06/08 at 11:32:26 am
Categories: Capital Punishment

This would be shocking, and big news, if it were something that we death penalty opponents have not been saying for years. BUT... it is still good news to see it getting press.

Death penalty costs Md. more than life term [hat tip Abolisth the Death Penalty]:

The death penalty has cost Maryland taxpayers at least $186 million more in prosecuting and defending capital murder cases over two decades than would have been spent without the threat of execution, according to a study to be released today.

In addition, because most death sentences in Maryland are overturned and eventually reduced to life without parole, state residents are often saddled with the high cost of a capital case and the bill for housing a convicted killer for life, the study found.

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