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At the trial level, death-penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel.
The high price of the death penalty is often most keenly felt in those counties responsible for both the prosecution and defense of capital defendants. A single trial can mean near bankruptcy, tax increases, and the laying off of vital personnel.
1 lis 1994 · The trial costs alone were about $200,000 more for each death penalty imposed than if no death penalty was involved. [84] The authors computed the costs of appealing a death penalty case and subtracted the savings which accrue to the state when an execution finally occurs.
This paper is a cost analysis that compares the costs of charging, trying, convicting and imposing a sentence of death versus the costs for its alternatives, life in prison without parole (LWOP) and life in prison with the possibility of parole (LPP) when the crime charged (“indictment”) involves one or more instances of aggravated first-degree ...
I. Introduction. the economic costs of seeking and imposing the death penalty in Oklahoma. The main objective of the study is to measure the diference in enumerated costs between first degree murder cases where the prosecutor seeks the death penalty and .
Among the five studies that compare the cost of a death sentence with the cost of a capital-eligible case in which no death notice is filed, the average (additional) cost per case is $650,000, but the estimates range from
1 lip 2008 · The greatest costs associated with the death penalty occur prior to and during trial, not in post-conviction proceedings. Even if all post-conviction proceedings (appeals) were abolished, the death penalty would still be more expensive than alternative sentences.
