Life sentence for Dugan called cheaper than executing him
Steve Miller Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780
CHICAGO (WBBM) -- The director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Northwestern University's Law School, Rob Warden, expects the appeals process for Brian Dugan will cost DuPage County and the state millions if not tens of millions.
Yesterday, a jury decided Dugan should be put to death for the 1983 rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville.
"I really believe that the state's attorney of DuPage County is on a fool's errand here," Warden says.
Warden says Brian Dugan could very well die on Death Row while the appeals process goes on.
Warden says it would be cheaper to put him away for life.
"We should lock him up and throw away the key. And it would be over."
Dugan will go to Tamms Correctional Center near Cairo. He will become the 16th resident of Death Row.
There's a moratorium on executions in Illinois. Nobody's been executed in the state since 1999.
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