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Report to Washington State Bar Association regarding costs

• At the trial level, death penalty cases are estimated to generate roughly $470,000 inadditional costs to the prosecution and defense over the cost of trying the same case as an aggravated murder without the death penalty and costs of $47,000 to $70,000 for court personnel.

• On direct appeal, the cost of appellate defense averages $100,000 more in death penalty cases, than in non-death penalty murder cases.

• Personal restraint petitions filed in death penalty cases on average cost an additional$137,000 in public defense costs.