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Sunday, December 06, 2009

Ind. Courts - More on "Bill for capital cases delivered to taxpayers"

Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 8, 2009, quoting a Gary Post-Tribune story headed "Lake County, state have spent combined $2.7M defending Lake County death penalty defendants since 1990," see this story by Kevin Landrigan in the Nashua NH Telegraph headed "Death penalty costs N.H. millions." It begins:

The taxpayer cost to prosecute, defend and sentence William "Stix" Addison for the October 2007 murder of a Manchester police officer has reached nearly $3 million and will grow by half a million dollars a year while he appeals the verdict.

Meanwhile, state prosecutors spent $2.4 million to convict John Brooks of Londonderry for ordering the 2005 murder of a Derry handyman.

The jury turned down the state's bid to apply the death penalty and instead Brooks is now serving serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.

An April 3, 2006 story by Ben Zion Hershberg of the Louisville Courier Journal began:
The three trials in the Camm murder case have cost Floyd County taxpayers about $1.8million — and the meter is still running.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 6, 2009 04:57 PM
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