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Originally Posted by Spikearoni
The reality is that it costs the taxpayer more money to sentence a criminal to death than to keep him/her in prison for life due to the cost of incarceration coupled with legal fees and costs for the appeals process. Therefore if one is primarily interested in saving the taxpayer money, life imprisonment is the way to go.
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Actually studies show that it costs between one half and one million dollars more to prosecute and defend a case a death penalty case as opposed to a case where life in prison with out parole is brought.
Costs of the Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center
What is not mentioned is the cost of about $30,000 per year to incarcerate an inmate.
https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...-incarceration
Tsarnaev is 21 years old. We can expect him to live another 57 years. That's $1.7 million not allowing for inflation. I would expect that the cost of incarceration will increase every year so we're talking about a lot more than $2 million to incarcerate this guy.
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