I'd like to see the numbers for that, and sources. The actual execution can't be that expensive. The costs for trails and appeals (which I don't object to by the way) I can see being pretty high. After all this isn't something we can undo, so we want to be sure we got the right guy or gal and every possible precaution should be made to be sure we're right.

But I can't see how it's more expensive to imprison a guy for a couple of years and then have a lot of expense for a couple of days or weeks around the execution than imprisoning the same guy for 50 years. Those few weeks must be awful expensive ...

ChrisH