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
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