Economist challenges Nebraska attorney general to public debate on cost of death penalty
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Joe Duggan
LINCOLN — The economist who estimated Nebraska spends $14.6 million annually on the death penalty challenged the biggest critic of his findings to a public debate.
Creighton economics professor Ernie Goss said in a Friday letter that Attorney General Doug Peterson has repeatedly misrepresented the economist’s cost analysis. Peterson has released his own research that he says shows the death penalty costs a small fraction of Goss’s estimate.
Goss invited Peterson to a public forum where both could present their research “so voters can analyze the data and decide for themselves what the economic costs of Nebraska’s death penalty are.”
In response, Peterson’s spokeswoman issued a press release saying the attorney general is “confident in Nebraskans’ ability to determine the facts when they vote on the death penalty.”
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