the extra cost is from the stronger degree of evidence and exhaustive appeals process required before the inmate is killed, right?
Some of it is from more expensive incarceration, but you’re right. This has one detailed breakdown:
Extra defense costs for capital cases in trial phase $13,180,385
Extra payments to jurors $224,640
Capital post-conviction costs $7,473,556
Resentencing hearings $594,216
Prison system $169,617
However, we’re assuming that with cryonics as an option the entire process would stay the same. That needn’t be the case.
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Some of it is from more expensive incarceration, but you’re right. This has one detailed breakdown:
Extra defense costs for capital cases in trial phase $13,180,385
Extra payments to jurors $224,640
Capital post-conviction costs $7,473,556
Resentencing hearings $594,216
Prison system $169,617
However, we’re assuming that with cryonics as an option the entire process would stay the same. That needn’t be the case.