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California Death Penalty Costs State $184 Million A Year, Study Finds
$4 billion in costs just to execute 13 people, no wonder California is borderline bankrupt. What is wrong with a firing line, free cigarette and a blindfold? Wouldn't cost more than $20 each including bullets!
California has rarely executed convicts since the death penalty was reinstated there in 1978, but the state has managed to spend $4 billion taxpayer dollars on capital punishment since then, according to a new cost analysis.
The study, conducted over three years by a senior federal judge and a law professor, estimates that the 13 executions California has carried out in the past three decades have cost an average of $308 million each in legal fees and death row security costs. According to the L.A. Times, a death penalty prosecution can cost the state up to 20 times more than a life-without-parole case.
$4 billion in costs just to execute 13 people, no wonder California is borderline bankrupt. What is wrong with a firing line, free cigarette and a blindfold? Wouldn't cost more than $20 each including bullets!