>>The big cost of state executions is the legal cost. It winds up dwarfing the cost of incarceration.
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>Doesn't the legal cost exist either way? Most of the legal cost would be in the trial, no?

No, because death penalty cases get lots of appeals and continue to involve lawyers until the day of the execution.

BTW, while I'm delighted by this, I don't know that I'd use "New Jersey" and "civilized" in the same sentence. < gd&r from all NJians >

You do know that the bridges and tunnels in and out of New Jersey have one-way tolls? You pay to leave. (I'm not joking; this is actually true.)

Tamar