A Missouri man has been executed for the 1998 fatal stabbing of a woman despite calls by her family and the prosecutor’s office that put him on death row to let him serve out the rest of his life in prison.
“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
How much of this was the state just wishing they didn’t have to pay for his life imprisonment?
Zero percent. It spent more money executing him than it would have keeping him in prison.
Life imprisonment is cheaper than execution in America.