California, for example, was spending $10 million a year reimbursing counties for expert witnesses, investigators and other death-penalty defense costs, plus $2 million more to help pay for the overall cost of murder trials in smaller counties.exas, with over 300 people on death row, is spending an estimated $2.3 million per case, but its murder rate remains one of the highest in the country. The death penalty is escaping the decisive cost-benefit analysis to which every other program is being put in times of austerity.
About half of all Kurds worldwide live in Turkey. Most of the rest live in adjacent regions of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Turkey's censuses do not list Kurds as a separate ethnic group. Consequently, there are no reliable data on their total numbers. In 1995 estimates of the number of Kurds in Turkey ranged from 6 million to 12 million. Because of the size of the Kurdish population, the Kurds are perceived as the only minority that could pose a threat to Turkish national unity.
Kurdish (Ú©ÙØ±Ø¯Û, Kurdi) kurdÃ® is a continuum Of Northwestern iranian languages spoken by The kurds In Western. asiahey are generally classified as Northwestern Iranian languages, or by some scholars as intermediate between Northwestern and Southwestern Iranian. Martin van Bruinessen notes that Kurdish has a strong south-western Iranian element, whereas Zaza and Gurani [...] do belong to the north-west Iranian group.