[who knows what evil?]

About how much will it cost the taxpayers of Texas to house, clothe, and feed this woman for the next 40 years? Just ballpark...about 1.5 million dollars, or so?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

11:54 PST (AP) -- "Those children never had a chance and you need to think about those children," district attorney Kaylynn Williford said in closing arguments of the penalty phase. But avoiding a forceful call for Yates' death, she said: "Whatever decision you make, the state will accept."

To impose the death penalty, the jury needed to decide unanimously that Yates was a future danger and that there were no mitigating circumstances against executing her. The jury answered no to the first question and therefore did not have to answer the second.

[Colonel_Flagg]

About how much will it cost the taxpayers of Texas to house, clothe, and feed this woman for the next 40 years? Just ballpark...about 1.5 million dollars, or so?

I remember someone mentioning on an earlier thread that it would cost about $53 per day to keep Yates incarcerated. I could be wrong about this, though.

That works out to $773,800 over 40 years.

[Clemenza]

About how much will it cost the taxpayers of Texas to house, clothe, and feed this woman for the next 40 years? Just ballpark...about 1.5 million dollars, or so?

About the same as it would cost to file appeal, after appeal, after appeal....

Much to my family's dismay, I DID think she deserved a death sentence. Nevertheless, letting Mrs. Yates rot in prison for most of the rest of her adult life is not such a bad idea.

From what I hear, Susan Smith (that c-nt who murdered her child but didn't get death because South Carolineans were loath to execute a woman) has gotten repeatedly beaten in prison.

[Bonaparte]

"About how much will it cost the taxpayers of Texas to house, clothe, and feed this woman for the next 40 years? Just ballpark...about 1.5 million dollars, or so?"

Don't forget the cost of continuous psychiatric treatment. This will be a high maintenance prisoner. And remember the costs to all of us during the many years of her appeals.