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California’s Broken Death Penalty System

Loaded on June 3, 2016 by Christopher Zoukis published in Prison Legal News June, 2016, page 38
Filed under: Prison Reform, Statistics/Trends, Cost of Prison Systems, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, Death Row. Location: California.

While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. With 747 prisoners sitting on death row as ...

 

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