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Ziggysmom

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6. How true! The Death Penalty Information Center notes that each death penalty case

Reply to RedWhiteBlueIsRacist (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 05:44 PM

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costs from 1 to 3 million $$ per case. They also say since 1973, at least 200 people who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated.
I also have never seen any statistics which showed the death penalty was any deterrent to violent crime.

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