Sections 3 and 4 discuss Irelandâs crash, examining the popping of the housing bubble, its fiscal. implications and the banking crisis. In contrast to some discussions of this crisis, I emphasize that. Irelandâs huge build-up of debt was not predominantly due to its banking crisis.
The alarming cost of the death penalty. Many people believe that the death penalty is more cost-effective than housing and feeding someone in prison for life. In reality, the death penaltyâs complexity, length, and finality drive costs through the roof, making it much more expensive. More than a dozen states have found that death penalty cases are up to 10 times more expensive than comparable non-death penalty cases. 2  The most rigorous cost study in the country found that a single death sentence in Maryland costs almost $2 million more than a comparable non-death penalty case.
Money. Turns out, it is cheaper to imprison killers for life than to execute them, according to a series of recent surveys. Tens of millions of dollars cheaper, politicians are learning, during a tumbling recession when nearly every state faces job cuts and massive deficits.y Pat Sullivan, AP. A microphone hangs over a gurney in the Texas death house in Huntsville last May. In hard economic times, more states say it costs more to execute killers than to imprison them for life.