The article linked below discusses the huge cost the State of New York spent to prosecute the death sentence of Angel Luis Mateo. Mateo was sentenced to death in 1998 for the 1995 murder of a Rochester man. His death sentence was vacated by the New York Court of Appeals in its landmark decision earlier this summer. Mateo will be resentenced next week and the most stringent sentence he can be given is life in prison without possibility of parole. This is the same sentence the jury who gave him death could have given him instead of death. The State has spent approximately $1.5 million on Mateo's death sentence. That cost includes prosecuting the punishment phase and assisting in his defense through the appeals.
Mateo case cost $1.5 million
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