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Originally Posted by Dimnos
It costs approximately $20,000 a year to house one inmate. It costs less than $90 for the chemicals required to preform a lethal injection.
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let's just compare the initial trial; the process by which a capital case arrives at sentencing compared to that of a noncapital case is radically different, with an average cost difference of about $800,000.
http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/groups/finalreport.pdf
there's too many variables to get into, the point is - it doesn't save money and with the average time on death row rising from 15-20 years to 25-30 it's becoming more and more ridiculously expensive.