Death Penalty vs Life Imprisonment (fiscal breakdown question) [View All]

Is there somewhere that gives the fiscal breakdown of the costs between states that carry out Death Penalty executions and states that don't have the Death Penalty and instead give people life imprisonment?

What I mean is the cost of the full spectrum.

Death Penalty: cost of appeals and the complete execution process (including cost of execution staff as well as the materials used)

Life Imprisonment: annual cost of care of prisoner (including cost of prison staff)

I often hear from people that it's more expensive to carry out the Death Penalty than it is to give somebody life imprisonment.

I would like an explanation of this. It would seem that say if someone was found guilty at the age of 30 years-old, and they were given life imprisonment without parole and then they went on to live until they were 80 years-old...this would be 50 years in prison for ONE person...this would be care of the prisoner, food and beverages, recreation, cost of prison staff et al.

Now say that we multiply this by 100 people in one state...surely the cost of keeping 100 people in prison for life without parole for 50 years would be MORE expensive than carrying out the Death Penalty on those 100 people within say five years of their conviction.

Five years vs Fifty years.

This post isn't flame bait, so please don't misinterpret this post. I'm just genuinely interested in the fiscal breakdowns between states that have the Death Penalty and states that don't have the Death Penalty but instead have life imprisonment.

Thanks.