The price of punishment: Seeking justice for the Parkland victims, and condemning a killer, carries ballooning cost

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Some defense lawyers who are not associated with the case are willing to concede that saving money by dropping the death penalty is not a realistic option for the prosecution.
40% : "If they don't seek death in this case, with this many victims killed the way they were, prosecutors could never seek another death penalty in Broward," said attorney H. Dohn Williams.
35% : "Regardless of your views on capital punishment, if you're going to have it, it's going to cost, a lot," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which keeps track of national death penalty statistics without taking a position on whether capital punishment is good policy.

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