On Wednesday, March 13, the Napa County District Attorney's Office released surveillance footage of a shooting by an American Canyon police officer in Vallejo
That’s more an issue of the court/justice system rather than a resource one. It’s objectively more expensive to keep a person alive than to kill them, if it “costs more” it’s just due to bureaucracy.
All at the tax payers expense.
I’ve always heard that the death penalty costs more than life in prison
https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/departments/criminal/crime-and-justice-research-center/death-penalty-cost-study/
That’s more an issue of the court/justice system rather than a resource one. It’s objectively more expensive to keep a person alive than to kill them, if it “costs more” it’s just due to bureaucracy.