$100 Million for California’s Death Penalty System
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The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, appointed by the State Legislature to propose criminal justice reforms, issued a report regarding our California death penalty system. Let me save you from reading the 117 pages and just let you know that it’s broken. Correction, a busted taillight would be considered broken, this car wreck of a legal system is “totaled”. It claims we spend too much on it to administer the death penalty. We do. It costs us more than $100,000,000 (yes, that’s $100 million) annually. How can that be? Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1978, we have only executed 13 inmates. There are currently 673 inmates on Death Row still waiting. What a shame. The national average for death row inmates is a 10 year wait, which is way too long. In California, it’s pushing beyond 17 years and that’s not saying much because we’ve only completed the job on 13 of them. At the end of the day, the conclusion appears to be best summed up by saying that unless you are willing to expand the administration budget for the death penalty in California (i.e. spend more taxpayer money that we don’t have or raise taxes just for this), you might as well just get rid of the death penalty. What a sham! Politicians playing politics again. They can’t convince the people of California that the death penalty is wrong, so they will just slow it down to a grinding halt, waste our money, and then say see it doesn’t work. The result: they do what they want and we foot the bill. Don’t buy it folks. Let’s streamline the process, get rid of the endless appeals, quite worrying about their country club like conditions and work against public opinion.
Posted on: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 12:47 am 
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