According to figures in the US, cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population.Originally Posted by Henry Hill
How many people convicted and sent down for "life" have subsequently had their convictions quashed?
Search Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, George Kelley....
Suzanne Holdsworth served three years of a life sentence for killing a child..before forensic evidence proved her innocence and she was subsequently released.
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