养一辈子花费一定高于终身监禁
FINANCIAL FACTS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY
• Defense costs for death penalty trials in Kansas averaged about $400,000 per case, compared to $100,000 per case
when the death penalty was not sought. (Kansas Judicial Council, 2014).
• A new study in California revealed that the cost of the death penalty in the state has been over $4 billion since 1978.
Study considered pre-trial and trial costs, costs of automatic appeals and state habeas corpus petitions, costs of
federal habeas corpus appeals, and costs of incarceration on death row. (Alarcon & Mitchell, 2011).
• In Maryland, an average death penalty case resulting in a death sentence costs approximately $3 million. The
eventual costs to Maryland taxpayers for cases pursued 1978-1999 will be $186 million. Five executions have
resulted. (Urban Institute, 2008).
• Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree
murderers with life in prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that
amounts to a cost of $24 million for each execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000).
• The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per
execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial
level. (Duke University, May 1993).
• In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in
a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992)
