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Saturday, March 07, 2009
Law - More on "Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty"
Updating this ILB entry from Feb. 25th, the Washington Post has a similar story today by Deborah Hastings of the AP. The long story begins:
-- After decades of moral arguments reaching biblical proportions, after long, twisted journeys to the nation's highest court and back, the death penalty may be abandoned by several states for a reason having nothing to do with right or wrong:Money.
Turns out, it is cheaper to imprison killers for life than to execute them, according to a series of recent surveys. Tens of millions of dollars cheaper, politicians are learning, during a tumbling recession when nearly every state faces job cuts and massive deficits.
So an increasing number of them are considering abolishing capital punishment in favor of life imprisonment, not on principle but out of financial necessity.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 7, 2009 12:39 PM
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