Currently prison networks in the United States have ceased to be entities under government control and have passed into the hands of profit-seeking private owners. Why? Simply put, overcrowding. Prisons have exhausted their carrying capacity and exhausted their resources for individuals, many of whom should not have been afforded the luxury of life to begin with. However, in hindsight, keeping a death row inmate alive has a factually and numerically lower price than proceeding with the planned execution: “A death sentence costs at least double, from start to finish, than a death sentence. 'life imprisonment without parole'. , according to a Maryland study. The Bar study put the cost of prosecuting, defending and appealing a death penalty at nearly $800,000 more. Most of these costs are borne by the counties. In King County, taxpayers spent about $10 million on two pending death penalty cases — and neither even went to trial. Smaller counties have been threatened with bankruptcy due to the cost of death penalty cases. The cost of a life sentence pales in comparison and provides the same level of public safety. The Legislature's fiscal staff estimated that abolishing the death penalty would require adding only two prison beds” (Riley et al. 3). While it may be true to keep an inmate alive