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Is It Worth $3 Million to Execute a Killer?

By AAN Staff
april 26, 2002  05:10 pm
Is It Worth $3 Million to Execute a Killer?
There's no question serial killer Cary Stayner is a monster. Currently serving life without parole for a homicide during which he kidnapped and raped 26-year-old Yosemite National Park environmentalist Joie Armstrong before decapitating her with a knife, Stayner faces new charges this June for the similarly misogynistic, brutal murders of Carole Sund, her 15-year-old daughter Juli, and Silvina Pelosso, a 16-year-old Argentine exchange student. Few people are likely to shed a tear should Stayner be put to death for his crimes. But this week the San Francisco Bay Guardian asks whether the satisfaction of revenge is worth the price tag. With the costs of capital punishment cases superceding those of incarcerating people for life by millions in taxpayer funds, even Armstrong's mother doesn't think so.
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