1ºThomas Rinchiuso there is just a huge pile of studies that show it is more expensive to have the death penalty than life in prison.
Some of those studies are getting a little older, but there are always new ones. It still holds true over time.  The studies are for different states, and look at different situations regarding prison, expenses, method of execution, and cost for legal representation and trials.
It always comes out the same: it’s cheaper to provide the three hots and a cot in a little barred room than it is to give the state the right to kill its citizens. 
2ºShe was on the fetal alcohol spectrum. She received no help or supports growing up.
Until the United States works to help people on the fetal alcohol spectrum, they will continue to have problems.
It is way past time to bring this disability out in the open and give people assistance. Canada is way ahead of the United States in recognizing this disability and helping people. Surprised? Not really. The United States is more concerned about keeping guns available
The link between Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and criminal behavior is rarely acknowledged as a mitigating factor in U.S. jurisprudence, says a New York Law School Legal Studies Research Paper.
About a quarter of children in juvenile corrections have FAS, and between 11 percent and 25 percent of incarcerated adults have been diagnosed with FAS, according to the paper.
But FAS is rarely taken into consideration by courts during sentencing decisions, write New York Law School professors Michael L. Perlin and Heather Cucolo, authors of the paper.
https://thecrimereport.or...y-courts-paper/