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In three pages this paper examines the financial aspects of the death penalty, and how the high costs associated with it are having many states rethink capital punishment. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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from a moral or philosophical perspective. But what about the financial aspects of the death penalty? Governor Martin OMalley asked the Maryland state legislature to consider abolishing capital
punishment as a money-saving measure (Urbina, 2009). According to OMalley, cases seeking the death penalty and cost three times more than do murder cases where capital punishment is not
sought, adding, "There are better and cheaper ways to reduce crime" (Urbina, 2009, p. 8). In 2008, an Urban Institute study revealed that in the state of Maryland, it
costs $2 million more to sentence an individual to death than it does to carry out a life sentence (Urbina, 2009). Although the state of Maryland did not abolish
the death penalty, several other states have banned the death penalty, as New Jersey chose to in 2007 (To Execute or Not: A Question of Cost, 2009). These include
Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan (which has never executed an inmate), Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and The District of Columbia. The state
of Illinois will be added to this growing list when Governor Pat Quinn officially terminates the death penalty on July 1, 2011. With many states teetering on the brink
of fiscal bankruptcy, banning capital punishment is an extremely cost-effective way of lowering deficits and taxpayer burdens. Where does the money go? First, pretrial incarcerations are usually quite lengthy,
and in capital trials special and expensive training is required of personnel both before the case goes to court and after the death penalty is imposed (Bienen, 2010). The
capital punishment cases themselves are more expensive than are murder trials that do not seek the death penalty because they take considerably longer to complete (Urbina, 2009). They require
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