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Legal costs of getting them sentenced to death. Apparently it takes $1.5-2 million to pay for the legal proceedings necessary to go beyond life in prison, while room & board & etc for life in prison costs about $500k.

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That makes it really easy to be against the death penalty.

I would like to think that the decision of whether to execute people would not be based on financial concerns.

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