Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, before the Pennsylvania Senate Government Management and Cost Study Commission on the costs of the death penalty and its lack of return.

Testimony and Statements

Jul 03, 2014

Testimony and Statements

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For every 8.2 people executed in the United States in the modern era of the death penalty, one person on death row has been exonerated.

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Testimony of Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center, before the Pennsylvania Senate Government Management and Cost Study Commission on the costs of the death penal­ty and its lack of return.