Footnotes for "What Politicians Don't Say About the High Costs of the Death Penalty," by Richard C. Dieter.
- S. Magagnini, "Closing Death Row Would
Save State $90 Million a Year," The Sacramento Bee,
March 28, 1988, 1.
- Kansas Legislative Research Department
study, cited in D. Von Drehle, "Bottom Line: Life in Prison
One-sixth as Expensive, The Miami Herald, July 10, 1988,
12A.
- C. Hoppe, "Executions Cost Texas Millions,"
The Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992, 1A.
- D. Von Drehle, "Bottom Line: Life
in Prison One-sixth as Expensive," The Miami Herald,
July 10, 1988, 12A.
- Magagnini, see note 1.
- The New York Dept. of Correctional Services
study cited in Moran & Ellis, "Death Penalty: Luxury
Item," New York Newsday, June 14, 1989, 60; see also
the Massachusetts Bar Association Section News, "The
Dollar and Human Costs of the Death Penalty," April 1992,
5.
- Funding the Justice System: A Call
to Action , a report by the American
Bar Association, August 1992, ii, 3 (emphasis in original) (hereinafter
ABA Study).
- Id. , 16.
- M. Garey, "The Cost of Taking a Life:
Dollars and Sense of the Death Penalty," 18 University
of California Davis Law Review, 1221, 1261 (1985).
- ABA Study ,
see note 7 at 21.
- Von Drehle, see note 4.
- Id.
- Moran & Ellis, see note 6 at 62.
- ABA Study,
see note 7, Table: Indicators of a National Problem: 1991,
ii-iii.
- Id. , Attachment, 54.
- L. Bienen, "No Savings in Lives or
Money with Death Penalty," The New York Times, Aug.
7, 1988; see also D. Grothaus, "Death, Dollars and the Scales
of Justice," The Houston Post, Dec. 7, 1986, 3B (Harris
County, with almost half of the state's capital cases, spent $86.3
million since 1980).
- ABA Study, see note 7 at 18.
- Id. , Attachment,
18.
- Testimony of Carole Carpenter on behalf
of the National Association of Counties before the U.S. Senate
Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, April 29, 1992, 7.
- Harshbarger, "Statement on Reinstating
the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth," Massachusetts
Bar Association Section News, see note 6 at 3.
- Tabak & Lane, "Judicial Activism
and Legislative 'Reform' of Federal Habeas Corpus: A Critical
Analysis of Recent Developments and Current Proposals," 55
Albany Law Review, 1, 31 (1991).
- Magagnini, see note 1.
- Magagnini, "Sierra County Robs Police
to Pay Lawyers," The Sacramento Bee, March 28, 1988.
- Telephone conversation, Sept. 15, 1992.
- See Magagnini, note 2; see also Corenevsky
v. Superior Court of Imperial County, 682 P.2d 360 (Calif.
1984).
- "Commissioners Jailed Over Fees,"
American Bar Association Journal, February 1992.
- "Lincoln Commissioners Pick Jail Over
Legal Fees," The Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 24, 1991.
- K. Wood, "Can State Afford Fourth
Prosecution of Spraggins?" Fulton County Daily Report,
March 3, 1988, 1.
- "Maxwell Murder Trial May Up Kemper
Taxes," The Meridian Star (Mississippi), July 21,
1992; telephone conversation with Michael Luke, Sept. 11, 1992.
- "Public Defender System Needed,"
The Yazoo Herald, July 6, 1991.
- Hoppe, The Dallas Morning News, see
note 3.
- Id.
- J. Painter, "Death Penalty Seen as
Too Costly for Oregon's Pocketbook," The Oregonian
(Portland), July 27, 1987.
- Kansas, for example, estimated that the
annual cost for implementing the death penalty would be $11.4
million, of which $9.2 million would be for trial costs (Kansas
Legislative Research Dept. Memorandum, February 11, 1987). New
York estimated a cost of $1.8 million per case, through the first
level of appeals, of which $1.5 million would be trial costs (Capital
Losses: The Price of the Death Penalty for New York State,
NY State Defenders Association, Albany 1982).
- Magagnini, see note 1.
- M. Hansen, "Politics and the Death
Penalty," The Palm Beach Review's Florida Supreme Court
Report, Feb. 25, 1991, 10B, 26B.
- D. Kaplan, "Death Mill, USA,"
The National Law Journal, May 8, 1989, 40.
- See Capital Losses, note 34.
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Uniform Crime
Report, preliminary annual release,
April 26, 1992; see also Richmond-Times Dispatch, April
27, 1992, for chart of 25 cities based on the Uniform Crime Report.
- G. James, "In Every Category, Crime
Reports Fell Last Year in New York City," The New York
Times, March 26, 1992, A1.
- The New York Times ,
Aug. 4, 1992, chart at B2.
- C. Wolff, "Brown Legacy: Community
Policing," The New York Times, Aug. 4, 1992, B2.
- E. Meyer, "Policing With People in
Mind," The Washington Post, June 15, 1992, A1, 8.
- T. Squitieri, "Murder Rate is Up in
Usually Slow First Quarter," USA Today, April 3, 1992,
8A.
- National Association of Chiefs of Police,
4th National Poll, 1991.
- K. Cullen, "Death Penalty Criticized
by County Prosecutors," The Boston Globe, Jan. 26,
1992.
- S. Harshbarger, see note 20.
- "Death, Life and the Presidency,"
The New York Times, Jan. 25, 1992.
- J. Kennedy, "Why Houston Leads in
Death Row Cases," The Los Angeles Times, July 2, 1992
(Washington edition).
- See note 39.
- "Republican Leaders Praise Atwater
After Memo Flap," The Courier-Journal (Louisville,
KY), June 17, 1989.
- M. Wines, "Bad Economic News Forces
Bush to Refocus Re-election Strategy," The New York Times,
July 4, 1992, A1.
- D. Von Drehle, "A Broader Federal
Death Penalty: Prelude to Bloodbath or Paper Tiger?" The
Washington Post, Nov. 29, 1991, A29, quoting Franklin Zimring,
director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute.
- Letter from Robert D. Reischauer, Director
of the Congressional Budget Office, to Charles E. Schumer, Chairman
of the House Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, Sept.
20, 1991.
- H. Dewar, "On Capitol Hill, Symbols
Triumph," The Washington Post, Nov. 26, 1991, A1.
- K. Sack, "Arkansan Portrayed as Soft,"
The New York Times, Aug. 25, 1992, A18.
- E. Dionne, "Clinton Charges Bush With
Inaction on Crime," The Washington Post, Feb. 22,
1992.
- See note 39.
- S. Grady, "Savagery of Bush-Dukakis
Race Lingers," The Albuquerque Journal, March 14,
1990.
- S. Attlesey, "GOP Launches New Ad
Attack Against Richards," The Dallas Morning News,
Sept. 29, 1990.
- C. Pesce, "Houston Fears It's Being
'Eaten Up By Crime,'" USA Today, Oct. 21, 1991.
- M. Oreskes, "The Political Stampede
on Execution," The San Francisco Daily Journal, April
21, 1992, 7.
- L. Mecoy & H. Sample, "Candidates
Waffle on Execution," The San Francisco Daily Journal,
April 21, 1992, 7.
- J. Miller, "Counties Brace for Cuts
in Police and Other Services," The Los Angeles Times,
Sept. 1, 1992 (Washington edition), quoting Grover Trask, Riverside
County District Attorney.
- See Magagnini, note 2.
- D. Gates, Chief: My Life in the LAPD
(1992), quoted in Newsweek, May 11, 1992, 39.
- "Blacks and Cops: Up Against the
Wall," Newsweek, May 11, 1992, 52-3, quoting Wesley
Skogan of Northwestern Univ.
- G. Ifill, "Kemp Attacks GOP Challenger
to Cuomo," The Washington Post, June 7, 1990.
- "A Welcome Defeat for Death,"
The New York Times, Nov. 14, 1990 (editorial), A28.
- "Instead of Death Penalty, Life Without
Parole," The New York Daily News, May 20, 1992, 34.
- M. Humbert, "Annual Death Penalty
Battle Resumes in NYS," The Cortland Standard, Feb.
5, 1990, 11.
- "Black Leaders Demand that Flynn Apologize,"
The Boston Globe, Jan. 5, 1990.
- B. Medlyn, "Arizona Child Crime Laws
Among Toughest, Officials Say," The Phoenix Gazette,
July 9, 1988, B12.
- The Salisbury Post,
May 5, 1990 (advertisement).
- P. Manson, "Woods Fought Death Penalty
as a Lawyer, Now Backs It," The Arizona Republic,
March 17, 1992.
- K. Wood, "Plea Deal Lets DA Avert
Abashment," Fulton County Daily Report, Oct. 22, 1990.
- See C. Willis, "Lawyers Accuse Jasmin
of Prosecuting Case for 'Political Gain,'" The Courier-Journal
(Louisville, KY), Feb. 25, 1992, B1.
- Letter from Stenberg to the Chief Deputy
Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, Aug. 4, 1992.