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Originally posted by Vodstok
Can you provid eus with some credible statistics for that? maybe a website?
i have never seen any satisfactory evidence of this. I have heard the argument more times than i can count, but have never seen it backed up with a shred of evidence.
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http://dpa.state.ky.us/library/advoc.../dppotter.html
"6. The death penalty is enormously costly, strains the budgets of both state and local governments and diverts funds from more effective crime control strategies and victim assistance programs. This is true in all jurisdictions regardless of state statute. The cost of executions exceeds the cost of life imprisonment by a factor of better than two to one in every jurisdiction studied. And this enormous cost is borne by the taxpayers for a crime control policy that only makes violent crime worse."