Small counties in South Georgia are going broke prosecuting...
Small counties in South Georgia are going broke prosecuting and defending death penalty cases - even though fewer and fewer murderers are being put to death
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Small counties in South Georgia are going broke prosecuting and defending death penalty cases - even though fewer and fewer murderers are being put to death. In Georgia, no one has been executed in 18 months, but 130 people sit on death row. Roughly 1/2 of all death sentences are thrown out, largely because of poor representation or shoddy prosecution. Average annual cost of incarcerating an inmate on Georgia's death row: $25,550.
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- (Sources: Georgia Department of Corrections, Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Southern Center for Human Rights, 14-01-2001)
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