Two Death Penalty Questiosns

[Girchuck]

Death penalty as implemented at present is more expensive than life imprisonment.
The average capital case with all the subsequent appeals and death row housing costs runs into several million dollars.
Keeping a prisoner in jail costs the state about 50000 per year, conservatively. The prisoner would have to survive an average of 40 years in jail in order for lifetime incarceration cost to approach death penalty cost.