The Bob Edwards on Sirius XM Radio recently explored the high costs of the death penalty and the views of the country’s police chiefs as discussed in DPIC’s latest report, Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis.” Edwards is the former host of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” He interviewed DPIC’s Executive Director Richard Dieter on October 20. An excerpt of the conversation focusing on the national poll of police chiefs and their opinions about the failure of the death penalty as a crime fighting tool is available here.
(The full interview is available from the Bob Edwards Show, Oct. 20, 2009). See Costs and Multimedia.