Too many topics, too little time

Cost of Terry Nichols' Trial. The citizens of Oklahoma shelled out more than $5.2 million to try and kill Terry Nichols: The final costs of Terry Nichols' state case will exceed $5.2 million. More than $3.75 million has already been paid on his defense since… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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i'm not sure representing it in monetary terms does this justice. we are talking more about a human life and several human lives, reducing it to monetary comparisons seems banal.