Capital trials cost more than life imprisonment
Evidence
A capital trial is—contrary to general belief—much more expensive than leaving someone to rot in jail for a lifetime. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 658
Categorization
- XREF: Reverses the common cost assumption; pairs with other writing on incentives shaping punishment. — connects to: Pretrial process costs can exceed the actual penalty for minor offenders — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1663; Prison costs vastly exceed the cost of decent wages to prevent crime — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 301
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 658
Related
- Prison costs vastly exceed the cost of decent wages to prevent crime (similarity 0.82)
- Pretrial process costs can exceed the actual penalty for minor offenders (similarity 0.81)