The Thursday letter writer who suggests letting people who are against the death penalty pay for life time incarceration of the accused has his facts wrong. The death penalty sentence is much more costly than a life time of imprisonment. (Information regarding costs can be found on line at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org). Death penalty trials cost an average of 48 percent more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment. When you consider the costs of keeping someone on death row for years, and paying for court costs that include many appeals, then followed by the execution itself, the death penalty is expensive. It is much less costly to give a life sentence without parole.
One would think the fact that innocent people have died under this barbaric system would outweigh any other consideration.
Lorrie Loyer Nelson
Everett
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