The new argument: death penalty cases cost three times as much as non-capital homicide cases. We can’t afford that when there are better cheaper ways to dissuade crime. Death penalty opponents welcome their new economic allies. And even some longtime death penalty proponents are being swayed, although others continue to trot out the same old tired arguments about the death penalty as a deterrent. via NYTimes.
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- The Tide Shifts Against the Death Penalty (time.com)
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- Republican Governors with “Principles” (teambio.org)