Each Death Sentence in Maryland Costs $3 Million, Finds Groundbreaking Study.
AScribe Law News Service, March, 2008
Byline: The Urban Institute
WASHINGTON, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new Urban Institute study finds that each death sentence in Maryland costs the state $3 million on average for adjudication and incarceration -- $1.9 million more than other murder cases in which prosecutors could have sought the death penalty but did not. More complex trials, costlier appeals, and more expensive death-row prison space contribute to the death sentence's higher cost.
The report from the Institute's Justice Policy Center is the nation's most comprehensive analysis of death-penalty costs, and comes as a Maryland Senate panel considers outlawing capital punishment in the state.
Researcher John Roman and his colleagues at the nonpartisan Urban Institute...
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