This confirmed Politifact Texas article, (at least confirmed according to Politifact Texas), is important to read because it so accurately reflects the insanity of the death penalty in the most persuasive way, the way through your wallet. Ron Paul states that property taxes rose by 7% because of one death penalty case that cost Jasper County courts $873,669 from the years 1998 to 2000. Each property owner in Jasper County had to pay thousands more to kill one person. If that doesn't convince you the death penalty literally isn't worth it then I don't know what would! Think about it, do you really want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to kill people?