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".... Derrick Dewayne Charles received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the US supreme court rejected last-day appeals and wouldn’t stop his execution. He’s the seventh prisoner put to death this year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.Charles’s attorneys argued the 32-year-old was mentally incompetent for execution and that they needed time and court-approved money for experts and investigators to pursue that claim. State lawyers said his attorneys made similar arguments about his competency that had previously been refused by the courts.Charles pleaded guilty to capital murder charges in 2003. A Harris County jury chose a death sentence after testimony about how the victims were beaten and strangled....
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ewayne-charles
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Charles was arrested at a Houston motel where Brenda Bennett's car was found. Police have said he told them he beat and strangled Obie Bennett. Myiesha Bennett was choked with an extension cord, beaten with a box containing stereo speakers and hit with a TV.
Brenda Bennett was thrown into a water-filled bathtub along with a plugged-in TV. When that failed to electrocute her, she was dragged through the house, raped and strangled.
Derrick Dewayne Charles received a lethal injection on Tuesday
Great job Texas!
We need to get more s out of society. We just don't do that enough. Jail is expensive.
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execution process is more expensive than life in prison
And how is that?
COSTS: Death Penalty Costs in Texas Outweigh Life Imprisonment
County estimates in Texas indicate that the death penalty system is much more expensive than sentencing inmates to life imprisonment.
Gray Countyspent nearly $1 million seeking the death penalty against Levi King, even though he pleaded guilty to murder.
Moreover, these costs do not include the cost of appeals, which will further increase the cost of the capital case, nor the costs of cases in which the death penalty is sought but not given.
By comparison, a non-death penalty murder case in nearby Lubbock County typically costs about $3,000, court officials estimate.
The average cost to house an inmate in Texas prisons is $47.50 per day, according to Mic e Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Thus it would cost about $17,340 to house an inmate for a year and $693,500 for 40 years, far less than even part of the death penalty costs.
The regional public defender's office estimates that just the legal costs for a death penalty case from indictment to execution are $1.2 million.
Lubbock County Criminal District Attorney Matt Powell said, “I don’t dispute that it’s more expensive,” but said he never takes cost into account when deciding whether to seek the death penalty.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/cost...e-imprisonment
$18K/year per prisoner, and"
"Texas schoolsare spending $8,400 per student in the current school year,
well under the national average of $11,455 and
low enough to put the state 49th in a ranking of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Only Arizona
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/texas-drops-close-to-bottom-in-student-spending.html/
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I see this claim all the time but when you drill down into the numbers it's always hypothetical legal fees they are using to justify the claim.
haven't you seen all the executed prisoners on TX death row for decades, costing $18K/year? dig down? hypothetical?
Cost to keep a prisoner on a life sentence vs. death row per day is irrelevant.haven't you seen all the executed prisoners on TX death row for decades, costing $18K/year? dig down? hypothetical?
The big dollars claimed are all hypothetical legal fees. Prosecution attorneys are all salaried employees and are paid the same whether they are prosecuting a death penalty case or picking their nose. The defense attorneys for indigents are appointed by the judge and they aren't paid compared to their normal fees. For the ones that hire their own attorneys that figure shouldn't even be counted but it is. Death penalty appeals for indigents beyond the first one are all pro-bono representation. I'm saying a lot of the cost claims are bogus.
Maybe.
It definitely needs a streamlining process.
why the hurry to get them out of jail and into the ground.
You answered your own question. s like Charles should be put down within a few weeks, save a ton of money.
If someone pleads guilty to murder, I prefer the state not seek the death penalty. However, some crimes are just too horrific and I think the state should go after them. If it really costs $1.2 million on average to do that then either the appeals process is completely broken or there is some shady accounting going on.
They should've electrocuted him just to show him how to do it rightBrenda Bennett was thrown into a water-filled bathtub along with a plugged-in TV. When that failed to electrocute her, she was dragged through the house, raped and strangled.
Saving money is NEVER a Repug goal, when the money is going to the PIC.
you misread my answer. it's the opposite, that execution costs more than life in prison.
Wild Cobra is the one that mentioned streamlining which in effect means scrapping our appeals process.
$18K/year and more for keeping a prisoner of death row for a couple decades is NOT hypothetical.
Govt attorneys waste their time on them rather than their real career-padding work of framing blacks and browns for mj possession.
I read your answer jus fine. The execution itself doesn't cost more, it's the years and years of court costs/appeals that cost so much. I am onboard with WC (never thought I'd say that) and streamlining the process for cases that are clear cut.
Stupid. They would be spending the same money per day with a life sentence. Zero sum cost.
So you're ok with ditching the appeals process in our court system.
Fwiw, I'm not. It's not perfect, but I prefer having it over not having it.
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