Title: To execute or not: A question of cost?
Headings: To execute or not: A question of cost?
To execute or not: A question of cost?
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Content: States "calculate the cost as if these people are going to spend their whole lives on death row. We should be revamping the appeals process so that these cases move more quickly," Scheidegger said. But court systems and their costs vary greatly among states, as does the time it takes to exhaust appeals. It's doubtful that change could come quickly enough to generate savings during this roiling recession. "It's all about money," said McCartin, the former California judge. " The reasons I changed my mind were between that and how the victims' families just get raped during appeals." But if convicted killers get life imprisonment instead of death, is that letting them off easy? Not a chance, says 52-year-old Gordon "Randy" Steidl. He lived on death row and then in the general prison population, after his sentence was commuted to life. He preferred his former accommodations.