Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A North Carolina study concluded that, even if the death penalty were 100% efficient, ie., if every death sentence resulted in an execution, the extra costs of the death penalty would still be $216,000 per case over a maximum sentence of life without parole.
Source(s): http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
"Without the involvement of physicians and other medical professionals, it is unlikely that lethal injection will ever meet a constitutional standard of decency. But do we as a society want the nations physicians to do this? We believe not."
Source(s): The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 358, January 24, 2008
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wrongful convictions extend beyond death row.
DNA evidence alone, through The Innocence Project,
has exonerated 204 inmates since 1989,
including 15 who served time on death row. Of these
204 innocent persons
• 122 are African American
• 57 are White
• 19 are Latino
• 1 is Asian American
• 5 are unknown
Source(s): The Innocence Project
DNA evidence alone, through The Innocence Project,
has exonerated 204 inmates since 1989,
including 15 who served time on death row. Of these
204 innocent persons
• 122 are African American
• 57 are White
• 19 are Latino
• 1 is Asian American
• 5 are unknown
Source(s): The Innocence Project
There were more than 1,800 murders in Nebraska between 1973 and 2007
• 31 resulted in a death sentence being imposed
• 13 death sentences were commuted
• 10 are on death row & on appeal
• 4 died in prison
• 3 were executed
• 1 was freed
Source(s): www.ncc.state.ne.us/docum#44F65;
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/necrimn.htm; www.corrections.state.ne.us
• 31 resulted in a death sentence being imposed
• 13 death sentences were commuted
• 10 are on death row & on appeal
• 4 died in prison
• 3 were executed
• 1 was freed
Source(s): www.ncc.state.ne.us/docum#44F65;
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/necrimn.htm; www.corrections.state.ne.us
In Nebraska and elsewhere, major studies have uncovered an overall rate of error in death penalty cases of 68%. Courts in Nebraska and elsewhere have found serious, reversible error in nearly 7 of every 10 cases that are prosecuted as capital cases.
Source(s): www.ncc.state.ne.us/docum#44F65
www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00#44F7B
Source(s): www.ncc.state.ne.us/docum#44F65
www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00#44F7B
A national study estimates that between 1982 and 1997, the extra cost of death penalty trials to counties nationwide was $1.6 billion, and that counties manage these high costs by decreasing funding for highways and police and by increasing taxes.
Source(s): Death Penalty Information Center; National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001
Source(s): Death Penalty Information Center; National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. w8382, Issued in July 2001
In a poll of 368 police chiefs and sheriffs in the U.S., the death penalty ranked dead last as a crime-fighting tool. 48% of these public safety officials ranked reducing drug abuse and a better job market as the top two most effective law enforcement tools.
Source(s): http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Source(s): http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Nebraska's chief death penalty prosecuter, state Solicitor GeneralJ. Kirk Brown volunteered that the costs range from $250 million for each execution in California to 1.7 times more than life in prison without parole in Kansas.
Source(s) Lincoln-Lancaster League of Women's Voters forum on the Death Penalty, January 15, 2008: www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Source(s) Lincoln-Lancaster League of Women's Voters forum on the Death Penalty, January 15, 2008: www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
If Nebraska spent just 50% of the national average of more than $1 million
on each of its 89 death penalty prosecutions between 1973 and 1999, then
Nebraska spent $45 million to execute 3 people.
Source(s): Death Penalty Information Center:
http://www.ncc.state.ne.us/documents/other/homicide.htm;
www.corrections.state.ne.us
on each of its 89 death penalty prosecutions between 1973 and 1999, then
Nebraska spent $45 million to execute 3 people.
Source(s): Death Penalty Information Center:
http://www.ncc.state.ne.us/documents/other/homicide.htm;
www.corrections.state.ne.us
Saturday, February 21, 2009
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