{"id":416,"date":"2011-10-22T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-11-01T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:32:38","slug":"expensive-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Expensive justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Atlantic Monthly<\/em> has reported on a report that shows that since California enacted its current death-penalty statute in 1978, the state&#8217;s taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on only 13 executions, or roughly $308 million per execution.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2009, prosecuting death-penalty cases cost upwards of $184 million more each year than life-without-parole cases. Housing, health care, and legal representation for California\u2019s current death-row population of 714 \u2014 the largest in the country \u2014 account for $144 million in annual extra costs.<\/p>\n<p><em>What lesson to draw &#8211; be more like Texas, where it&#8217;s surely a lot cheaper to carry out capital punishment, or save money with life-without-parole?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Monthly has reported on a report that shows that since California enacted its current death-penalty statute in 1978, the state&#8217;s taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on only 13 executions, or roughly $308 million per execution. As of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}