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In <1993Jan5.212321.23381@tera.com> erik@tera.com (Erik Hedberg) writes:

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:Further clouding the issue is the fact that "life without parole" is
:*cheaper* than execution.  Some people might not agree with this, but
:this is what I was taught in a criminal law class in college.  You can
:do the math for yourself.  If it costs $40K/yr to house inmates, and
:about $100K to build a cell, and the "average" inmate in question is
:sentenced at age 27, lives to age 75, this comes to (75-27)*40K + 100K
:= $2.02M (in a new cell).  This is a lot, but the costs of appeals
:easily exceeds this.  Remember, government pays the prosecutors,
:defense attorneys, and the judges.  The figure we were taught (in
:1975) was about $10M for capital appeals to be exhausted.
:Streamlining the appeals process reduces the $10M, but it needs to be
:cut by 80% to match the $2M.

Simple solution -- hang the lawyers!  This will eliminate the
appeals and much of the backlog in the courts.

Bill
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