The Death Penalty Information Center recently released Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis. According to the executive summary, Smart on Crime “explores the prospect of saving states hundreds of millions of dollars by ending the death penalty. The report also serves to release a national poll of police chiefs in which they rank the death penalty at the bottom of their priorities for achieving a safer society.”
Read the report here. CNN’s coverage of the report can be found here.
