ct of those responses, differ from
             Finally, does no response but reason have any place in the debate over capital
             punishment? The offences which attract capital statutes and death sentences include the most
             heinous, appalling, and disgusting acts. Does have no legitimate part to play in this debate?
             Estimates of the cost of capital punishment will inevitably vary greatly, since estimating
             the cost of each execution requires multiplying the excess cost of a capital trial by the number of
             capital trials, and then dividing the result by the number of executions. I will try to provide a
             minimum estimate for the cost of an execution.
             Let us then use the cost figures for Texas provided by Dan Cutrer, who quoted estimates
             made by two Texas counties. These counties estimated the cost of a capital trial at between
             $400,000 and $600,000. If we subtract the cost of a non-capital murder trial ($75,000) from the
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