Top definition Hollish unknown A term used to refer to the language and the people from The Netherlands; it is considered more accurate than Dutch because it doesn't conflict with the German (and Hollish) word for the German language: Deutsch.
County estimates in Texas indicate that the death penalty system is much more expensive than sentencing inmates to life imprisonment. Gray County spent nearly $1 million seeking the death penalty against Levi King, even though he pleaded guilty to murder.
The cost of the death penalty is more than double that of life in prison. The cost on average for i year in a state penitentiary is 35K. GK ========================== Edit: If you are given the death penalty you are automatically given an appeal.In some cases you can have many appeals that last years and years.on-death penalty cases were counted through to the end of incarceration and were found to have a median cost of $740,000. For death penalty cases, the pre-trial and trial level expenses were the most expensive part, 49% of the total cost.