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Governor Martin O'Malley has called the death penaltyas ineffective and costly, and asked the lawmakers to give it a fair up-or-down vote. Moreover, it cites that death penalty is racially and jurisdictionally biased and carries the risk of killing an innocent person.

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A recent study by Professor Michael Radelet and Traci Lacock of the University of Colorado found that 88% of the nation’s leading criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime.

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Grant CollinsElectrocution in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.         Lethal gas in Arizona and California.      Firing squad in Utah.

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Grant CollinsElectrocution in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.         Lethal gas in Arizona and California.      Firing squad in Utah.

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A study found that 4% of all defendants sentenced to die are innocent. Which means  over 8,000 men and woman have died from being falsely accused.

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A study found that 4% of all defendants sentenced to die are innocent. Which means  over 8,000 men and woman have died from being falsely accused.

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According to a study in 2017, it was proven that that the death penalty was ineffective.

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The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs
of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment. The majority of those costs occur at the trial level. (Duke University, May 1993).

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more than 1,470 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent

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The cost of defending one federal death case is $620,000

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A number of people are claimed to have been innocent victims of the death penalty. Newly available DNA evidence has allowed the exoneration and release of more than 20 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States, but DNA evidence is available in only a fraction of capital cases.

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Death penalty case costs were counted through to execution (median cost $1.26 million), in 2003

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Some years ago, a study of costs in Texas showed that death row cases cost taxpayers $2.3 million
per case, compared with $750,000 for life sentence cases.

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Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population.

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death penalty imposes an average of approximately $700,000

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The study found that 61 death sentences handed down in Oregon cost taxpayers an average of $2.3 million, including incarceration costs, while a comparison group of 313 aggravated murder cases cost an average of $1.4 million.

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In 1984 there were 75 cases that punished an innocent person. Out of the 75 cases, only 10 involved DNA evidence. DNA improves our detection rate, but can still lead to the wrong person.

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Since 1973, 144 people on death row have been exonerated. As a percentage of all death sentences, that's just 1.6 percent. But if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration, the study suggests what most people assumed but dreaded: An untold number of innocent people have been executed.

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Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population.