Earlier this year Creighton University Economics Professor Ernie Goss released a report that says Nebraska’s death penalty costs taxpayers $14.6-million a year.  Attorney General Doug Peterson supports the death penalty and has criticized the study claiming the costs are incorrect.  Goss is standing by those figures and asked Peterson to publically debate him on the costs of the death penalty.  Goss says he got this response.

Others dispute those numbers but Goss is standing by them saying there is no personal opinion in this report.

Goss says he got his data from the U.S. Justice Department as reported by the counties and state agencies in Nebraska.