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McCook Gazette

Death penalty talk tonight

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Bruce Crosby/McCook Gazette

Curtis McCarty, right, says he "tried to maintain my composure" during his 22 years in prison -- 19 on death row -- after being falsely convicted of murder. Speaking at the United Methodist Church in McCook Wednesday night, McCarty and Stacy Anderson, left, executive director of Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, argue that resources spent on executions, running into the millions of dollars each, would be better spent on the "front end," on education, crime prevention, treatment and law enforcement. McCarty was convicted of killing a police officer's daughter and was exonerated only after testimony that documents had been falsified in his and several other cases. The greatest tragedy, he said, is that changes in the law prevent evidence used to clear him could not be used to convict another person who actually committed the crime.

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  • Looking at the comment about it costing millions of dollars, I'd be interested to see the break-down of how they come up with the figure. That figure is always thrown around but nobody ever says how they come up with it.

    THanks.

    -- Posted by Pierre on Thu, May 22, 2014, at 11:54 PM
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