Opponents' flawed logic and moral confusion mirror their "factual" arguments - there is, often, an absence of reality. ... There is no question that the up front costs of the death penalty are significantly higher than for equivalent life without parole cases. There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent life without parole cases are much more expensive - from $1.2 to $3.6 million - than death penalty cases. ... In the context that hundreds of thousands of innocents have been murdered or seriously injured, since 1900, by criminals improperly released by the U.S. crimin...

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