How+a+Truism+Might+Further+Invigorate+Contemporary+“Cost+Arguments”+for+Death-Penalty+Abolition

Sween, Gretchen. "Texas Ain't Tuscany: How a Truism Might Further Invigorate Contemporary "Cost Arguments" for Death-Penalty Abolition." American Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring2014, pp. 151-187. EBSCO host, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lgh&AN=97023432&site=eds-live.

This journal mainly focuses on the cost argument of the death penalty and how it is actually very costly for the state and has proven to have no benefits. The article also compares Tuscany and Texas, where Tuscany has abolished the death penalty and Texas hasn't, and how there have been huge cost benefits to Tuscany while Texas has suffered. The article also talks about the political aspects of keeping the death penalty and how only the Supreme Court will be capable of abolishing the death penalty if they choose to do so.

I will mainly use this article to discuss the cost benefits associated with abolishing the death penalty. I will discuss the costs of capital punishment as well as talk about how there are no real benefits, even though there is a perception that the death penalty deters crimes or is cheaper. I will also use this talk about what some of the other reasons are for keeping the death penalty that are not based on logistics but rather on politics.