Cost, Deception & the Death Penalty: The Colorado Experience
Worldwide NEWS RELEASE May 8, 2009
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Cost, Deception & the Death Penalty: The Colorado Experience
Death penalty opponents fashioned this argument: End the death penalty, they said, and we can use the $380,000/year(1), the alleged net cost excess of the death penalty, to fund cold case investigations, for over 1400 Colorado unsolved murders.
From the beginning, this was, only, another anti death penalty effort. Plea bargains to a life sentence, only possible because of the presence of the death penalty, likely, would save more money (1).
By the end of the Colorado Legislative session, even for the most naive, all doubt was removed.