June 20, 2011

$308,000,000 to kill a convict

 Taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment in California since it was reinstated in 
1978, or about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then.


umm....??  


via http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/Execution_Costs/
via http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-death-penalty-costs-20110620,0,3505671.story

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