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Ketchum: Poor economy strikes blow at death penalty

Hard times may be accomplishing what some religious organizations have been trying to do for many years: end the death penalty.And to think, they could have done it just by making the economy collapse.A recent report shows maintaining the capital-punishment system probably is one of the most inefficient ways to spend law-enforcement dollars. In a time when states, including Michigan, have closed prisons because they can't afford to run them, maintaining the death penalty averages more than $10 million per year in the states in which it still is allowed.Michigan does not allow executions, but 35 states do. Yet executions are on the decline. The report by the Death Penalty Information Center also includes a poll of 500 police chiefs that shows the death penalty ranked last -- at 1% -- among their priorities for reducing violent crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on January 02, 2010 (boomark / email).