[StrictDabbler]

It takes millions of dollars to go through the legal process necessary to execute somebody with any confidence in the judgment. It is vastly more expensive than life imprisonment.

It also costs a lot to go through that process and determine that execution is not justified, at which point we're still on the hook for imprisonment.

Putting somebody in jail for life is a bargain in comparison.

[1] https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/76th2011/ExhibitDo...

[sleepymoose]

Whelp, that answered my question! Seems like there's a lot of cost cutting to do across the entire board. I saw an article the other day on here talking about Riker's and it said that 1 inmate costs something like $550,000 annually.