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| Subject: DNA and dollars are killing capital punishment Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:03 pm | |
| The cost of sentencing people to death is changing the minds of cash-strapped states, writes Simon Mann in Washington.
America's financial predicament is having an impact on nearly every aspect of life - and even death. Cash-strapped states are being forced to rethink their commitment to the death penalty amid evidence that it costs at least three times as much to execute criminals as it does to lock them up for life.
The new budgetary imperative is set to keep US execution rates on their decade-long downward path, a trend precipitated by the advent of DNA evidence and a widening acceptance of the judicial system's fallibility.
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