DEATH PENALTYBy: Emilio Padilla

State Budget Made up of 3 different State Funds

General fund Bond fund Special funds General Fund This is the fund that gives prisons support and is

designated by law for special purposes

Budget Every State has a limited amount of

money they can spend The budget for 2012-2013 was 92.5 Billion

The Federal Budget is different as well Known as Discretionary Spending Federal budget negotiated by President as

well as congress

Process Includes everything not mandatory in the

budget Transportation International Affairs Military

Programs required by law to provide certain health benefits

Cost of Death Penalty Everything has a cost and every cost adds up

Pre-Trial and Trial Costs- $1.94 billion Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petitions- $925

million Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals- $775 million Costs of Incarceration- $1 Billion

Death Penalty Facts What is the Death Penalty?

Punishment of execution Someone is put to death When somebody commits a capital crime

Such as : Any type of murder drug affiliation Rape Kidnapping Home invasions.

Death penalty or life?DEATH PENALTY LIFE IN PRISON

Court spends 3.6 million dollar a year on death penalty lawyers

$90 million would be saved year if we didn’t use the death penalty

Cost $930, 240 each year to keep a prisoner for life

This is statistic is based on 40 year life expectancy

More Economically efficient ways

In other countries they like to use different cheaper methods such as:

Stoning Hanging Firing squad

Is it worth it? Economically it is not worth the costs

More than 3500 men and women alone have received this sentence in California And since 1978 none of them have been released

All of the taxpayers in California pay about $90,000 for each death row inmate each year

Stoning A way of killing someone by a group of

people throwing stones at a person until the person dies. Issued to prisoners who have committed

capital crimes A benefit is that is has little to no cost so

it is very economically beneficial There are stones everywhere

Stoning

Hanging This means to kill someone by tying a

noose around their neck from an elevated position

Costs less because You are able to reuse everything for multiple times

Ropes, posts and tress can all be used multiple times

You can also hang many people at once from the same post or a branch

Hanging

Firing Squad Carrying out an Execution by shooting is

a form of capital punishment whereby an executed person Is shot by one or more firearms

It one of the most common ways to execute someone in many different countries

But the death is quick

Firing Squad

Work Cited

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Magagnini, Stephen. Sacbee.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2014.

Safdar, Khadeeja. "Legally Killing People Has Gotten More Expensive." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 30 Mar. 2012. Web. 03 Jan. 2014.