Death Penalty Box

Here are some links on the death penalty.

This first link is a large collection of resources on the ethics of capital punishment. I mean, wow.

In class, we discussed the financial cost of the death penalty. Although it's common sense to think that keeping a criminal in prison for life would cost more than putting her to death, many studies suggest that the opposite is true. The additional legal battles in death penalty cases may cost more than a life sentence.

Finally, here's a nice article on measuring the reliability of the justice system. How often do courts convict the wrong person?