Death Penalty Cases Have Cost California BIllions
by Matthew Lawlor on Feb 17, 2014 | Views: 244 | Score: 1
Associated Costs of Enacting Death Penalty | |
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Pre-Trial and Trial Costs | 1.94 |
Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petitions | 0.935 |
Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals | 0.775 |
Cost of Incarceration | 1 |
Billions of US Dollars
Sources:
deathpenaltyinfo.org
In 2012 Judge Arthur Alarcon and Professor Paula Mitchell attempted to estimate how much money death penalty cases have cost the state of California since the late 70's. Their final number was over 4 billion dollars.