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Death penalty costs US millions

AFP , WASHINGTON
TAIPEI Times, Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009, Page 7

Even when executions are not carried out, the death penalty costs US states hundreds of millions of dollars a year, depleting budgets in the midst of economic crisis, a study released yesterday found.

“It is doubtful in today’s economic climate that any legislature would introduce the death penalty if faced with the reality that each execution would cost taxpayers 25 million dollars, or that the state might spend more than 100 million dollars over several years and produce few or no executions,” argued Richard Dieter, director of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) and the report’s author.

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2009-02-26 中國時報

鍾玉玨/綜合廿五日外電報導

美國有好幾個州為了紓解財政赤字,打算廢除死刑。原本就反對死刑的馬里蘭州州長歐馬雷(Martin O’Malley)也加入聲援行列,但這次反對死刑的理由不是因為他篤信天主教,而是因為不敵赤字重擔。

民主黨籍的歐馬雷上周赴馬里蘭州參議院報告,聲稱死刑案從起訴、定讞到執行的費用是關押一般殺人犯的三倍。他並坦言:「政府付不起。」

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