Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the 1970s, 130 people have been exonerated from death row in 26 states - roughly one for every nine executed. The most comprehensive study of capital trials ever conducted found that nearly seven of every 10 death sentences handed down by state courts from 1973 to 1995 were overturned due to “serious, reversible error,” including egregiously incompetent defense counsel, suppression of exculpatory evidence, eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, snitch and accomplice testimony, and unreliable forensic science

How is one shot of death juice more expensive than keeping someone alive for 50 years?

Edited b/c it is 2:30 am and the fucking cats are still fighting outside.

Appeals process, which everyone on death row is going to use. You have to pay for all the fees for all the appeals, assuming they are using a public defender. By the time you actually execute them, you have racked up hundreds of thousands, if not millions if expenses.
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Posted By: Jeremiah On: 08-16-2009 @ 02:04:12     Reply | Top | Edit

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I havent done any research, but I'd be willing to bet that the number of false convictions has gone down dramatically over that last 10-15 years. A lot more old convictions are being overturned right now because of available science, but new convictions are pretty solid.
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Posted By: ThumperNC24 On: 08-16-2009 @ 06:15:35     Reply | Top | Edit

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justin,

isn't that process available to lifers too?

why are they so much less likely to use it?

I just can't justify not having it. I can't see using it a lot, but there are times, and there are rock solid cases when I think it needs to be there.
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Posted By: 2piececrank On: 08-16-2009 @ 10:44:23     Reply | Top | Edit

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Yes, but from what I understand, they are much much less likely to use it, and many lifers are plea bargains. They are probably a lot less likely to use it because they aren't going to die. If they want to get out, all they have to do is behave and get paroled (in most cases).

Plus, capital murder trials are far more expensive, and you have the cost of the execution itself, which includes the equipment, keeping the room sterile, and the cost of the employees (who I would wager get paid a fair amount extra for having to flip the switch).

So if we look at someone on death row going through appeals and someone in for life, the difference should come out. OK, so for 20-25 years, both prisoners are incarcerated, but you have to pay a little more to guard death row than your average prison populous. Plus you are paying for all the costs of appeals which includes all the PD and DA costs. For the lifer, you only have to house and feed him for another 15 or so years because the average life expectancy in prison is less than outsiders (most claim that every 2 years in takes 1 year off your life).

I havent done any research, but I'd be willing to bet that the number of false convictions has gone down dramatically over that last 10-15 years.

Again, how many false convictions and executions are you willing to tolerate?

Joe Arpaio is a monster that costs his county fortunes ($50 million+ in lawsuits). More prison condition lawsuits are filed against him and Maricopa County than are for NYC, LA, Houston, and Chicago combined. By 50x more combined. He constantly takes the law into his own hands so far beyond his limits that he is breaking laws, including constitutional law. He holds pretrial (innocent until proven guilty) people in his jail, and his jailing has led to the deaths of several inmates. Like I said, he is a monster. If you want to rehab people, you can't treat them like animals.
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Posted By: GOATS2QUICK On: 08-16-2009 @ 10:52:10     Reply | Top | Edit

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im amazed nobody has snuffed Joe Arpaio.
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