How much money would you save for doing capital punishment?

Anualy yearly or monthly

None. The death penalty actually is much more expensive than life in prison, mostly because of the upfront costs of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people. (upfront= before and during the initial trial).
Reports from individual states have all reached this conclusion. Just a few examples:

Washington State 鈥淎t the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel.鈥?(Final Report of the Death Penalty Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Defense, Washington State Bar Association, December 2006,
http://www.wsba.org/lawyers/groups/commi...


Kansas: 鈥淭he study counted death penalty case costs through to execution and found that the median death penalty case costs $1.26 million. Non-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost. The investigation costs for death-sentence cases were about 3 times greater than for non-death cases. The trial costs for death cases were about 16 times greater than for non-death cases ($508,000 for death case; $32,000 for non-death case).鈥? (. Kansas: Performance Audit Report: Costs Incurred for Death Penalty Cases: A K-GOAL Audit of the Department of Corrections)

Many people are surprised to hear this. Here is a partial list of where the upfront costs come from:
鈥?more pre-trial time will be needed to prepare: cases typically take a year to come to trial
鈥?more pre-trial motions will be filed and answered
鈥?more experts will be hired
鈥?twice as many attorneys will be appointed for the defense, and a comparable
team for the prosecution
鈥?jurors will have to be individually quizzed on their views about the death penalty, and they are more likely to be sequestered
鈥?two trials instead of one will be conducted: one for guilt and one for punishment
鈥?the trial will be longer: a cost study at Duke University estimated that death penalty trials take 3 to 5 times longer than typical murder trials
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/COcostte... page 3 and 4

To find out more about this and for links to reports from other states visit www.deathpenaltyinfo.org and click on costs. Feel free to email me if you need more information.

In my own state, New York, more than $200 million was spent during the 9 year period (1995-2004) when we had a functioning death penalty. Seven men were sentenced to death. Do the math- it is truly astonishing. (How do I know the estimated cost- hearings in the the New York State Assembly) Report It