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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
A trial has to be cheaper than housing an inmate for the 30 extra years your average serial killer would live getting LWOP than death penalty. (30 years = totally random guess unsupported by any research). But because the people who set and administer the State Attorney's office are different from the people who oversee the corrections budget, there probably is some inefficiency going on.
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A common argument of death penalty opponents is that trial and all appeals (many of them are required) are actually much more expensive to the states than putting the inmates up for 30 + years. Someone else might even feel inspired to google this.
