Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California - but the state doesn't conduct executions

"California is wasting enormous amounts of public money," said Robert Bacon, an Oakland-based attorney. The financial burden comes without increasing public safety, as condemned inmates won't reoffend due to their life sentences."

Despite California's moratorium on executions since 2019, 233 defendants have still been sentenced to death, showing that the legal machinery surrounding the death penalty remains active and costly."

Read at Sacramento Bee