Khuutra on 16 October 2010
| badgenome said: There's a great deal more deliberation (and often many more appeals) when it's a capital case, though. In North Carolina, it costs something like $2.5 million just to bring about such a case. A Duke University study from '93 put the total cost of execution at $163,000 more than a 20 year stretch in the slammer; if it's like everything else, that discrepancy has probably grown rather than shrunk over the last 17 years. |
Very interesting, though that 20 year stretch in the slammer is not the same as a literal life sentence (which I believe was the point of contention), which can last for three or four decades.
