In August of 2016 there was a study of costs of Nebraska’s death penalty done by Dr. Ernest Gross, a Creighton University economics professor who founded the conservation think tank, Goss & Associates, he found that the state spends $14.6 million per year to maintain its capital punishment. The study was called The Economic impact of the Death Penalty on the State of Nebraska: A Taxpayer Burden?, it also estimated that each death penalty prosecution cost Nebraska’s taxpayers about $1.5 million more than a life without parole prosecution. Dr. Gross estimated that the death penalty costs states with capital punishment an average of $23.2 million more per year than alternative sentences. The study’s shown that states with death penalty spent about 3.54% of overall state budgets on court, corrections, and other criminal justice functions associated with the death penalty, while states without the death penalty spend about 2.93% on those
In August of 2016 there was a study of costs of Nebraska’s death penalty done by Dr. Ernest Gross, a Creighton University economics professor who founded the conservation think tank, Goss & Associates, he found that the state spends $14.6 million per year to maintain its capital punishment. The study was called The Economic impact of the Death Penalty on the State of Nebraska: A Taxpayer Burden?, it also estimated that each death penalty prosecution cost Nebraska’s taxpayers about $1.5 million more than a life without parole prosecution. Dr. Gross estimated that the death penalty costs states with capital punishment an average of $23.2 million more per year than alternative sentences. The study’s shown that states with death penalty spent about 3.54% of overall state budgets on court, corrections, and other criminal justice functions associated with the death penalty, while states without the death penalty spend about 2.93% on those