Death penalty: Exhaustive study finds death penalty costs California $184 million a year - latimes.com

Death penalty: Exhaustive study finds death penalty costs California $184 million a year - latimes.com: "Taxpayers have spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment in California since it was reinstated in 1978, or about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out since then, according to a comprehensive analysis of the death penalty's costs."