Attorney General Doug Peterson says an economic study claiming the death penalty costs Nebraska 14-point-6 Million dollars a year grossly overstates the expense of capital punishment.

Peterson says his office handles 500 criminal appeals a year, with less than one percent dealing with death penalty cases…and county prosecutors, on average, file less than one death penalty case a year

 

Peterson says claims that appeals in death penalty cases cost more just aren’t accurate

Opponents of the death penalty, campaigning to uphold the Unicameral’s repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska, released the economic study earlier this week.