Public approval of the death penalty is currently around 70%, but when a public poll is taken, subjects are asked whether they would prefer the death penalty or life sentence with imprisonment without the possibility of parole; It costs taxpayers more to keep a man in prison for life than to execute him (death penalty). Nine states have resumed executions. California; April 21, 1992, Delaware; March 14, 1992, Idaho; January 6, 1994, Illinois; September 12, 1990, Maryland; May 17, 1994, Montana; May 10, 1995, Nebraska; September 2, 1994, Pennsylvania; May 2, 1995, Washington; January 5, 1993