Save $1 Billion: Cut the Death Penalty in California

As California politicians are working on resolving the budget crisis, consider that we could save $1 billion in five years by suspending the death penalty.

Here's how:

1. $125 million per year in costs for the death penalty system. According to the CA Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, the death penalty currently costs the state $137 million per year, whereas the alternative, permanent imprisonment, would cost only $11 million. The savings over five years equals $600 million.

2. $400 million for construction of new housing facility for death row prisoners. According to the State Auditor, this is how much it would cost to build a new facility at San Quentin State Prison.

The Desired Outcome of this Petition:

Save California $1 billion in five years by suspending the death penalty and using permanent imprisonment instead.

To: Gov. Jerry Brown,

We urge you to convert all current death sentences to sentences of life without possibility of parole to save California $1 billion in five years.

Sincerely,

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By ending the death penalty, California could save $1 billion in five years. How should the savings be spent?

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This petition has a goal of 1000 signatures

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Number	Date	Name	Location	By ending the death penalty, ...
433	Fri May 24 13:48:38 EDT 2013	Ashunda Norris	Los Angeles, CA , US
432	Thu May 23 02:47:14 EDT 2013	ashley rasner	santa barbara , CA , US
431	Thu May 23 02:46:36 EDT 2013	ashley rasner	santa barbara , CA , US
430	Thu May 23 02:45:26 EDT 2013	ashley rasner	santa barbara , CA , US
429	Thu May 23 02:45:08 EDT 2013	ashley rasner	santa barbara , CA , US
428	Wed May 22 14:47:18 EDT 2013	hiva bana	corona, CA , US	on schools, and hospitals
427	Wed May 08 23:46:45 EDT 2013	Michelle Fischer	Fresno, CA , US	Education!!! Not for pre K education or esl...put arts back in all schools, more gate schools. Our education system is broken, its embarrassing!!! My second language is English, no one taught me my first More....
426	Thu May 02 20:57:10 EDT 2013	Roberta Reed	Huntington Beach, CA , US
425	Thu Mar 07 04:13:50 EST 2013	Carla Compton, Advocate/Activist/Humanist	Placerville, CA , US
424	Sun Feb 24 07:08:08 EST 2013	Anonymous	cologne, CA , DE
423	Wed Feb 20 14:22:51 EST 2013	Anonymous	Camden, NJ , US	To help get lawyers for inmates that are in prison wrongfully ..
422	Thu Jan 03 19:32:39 EST 2013	marine Herrenschmidt	Gif Sur Yvette, ot , FR	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948 Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment More....or punishment.
421	Tue Jan 01 11:46:30 EST 2013	Jennifer Bernardo	Boston , MA , US	Cold Cases, victims services,
420	Tue Nov 06 22:10:23 EST 2012	Emma Distler	Peoria, IL , US
419	Mon Sep 03 21:39:04 EDT 2012	Anonymous	Richmond, CA , US	201 -->200Savings should be spent on rehabilitation and re-entry programs for prisoners who are eligible for release. so they have life and work skills to prevent them from re-offending and returning to prison.
418	Sat Aug 11 19:51:42 EDT 2012	Dr. Lorri Greene	Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA , US	Mental health issues.
417	Mon Jul 09 14:20:36 EDT 2012	Anonymous	berkeley, CA , US	The money should be spent on building a safer environment for the children to grow up in, educating them, steering them away from crime. Victim familys should also benefit and the law enforcement become More....more equipped to solve cases.
416	Tue Jun 12 14:49:14 EDT 2012	Cynthia Lujan	Tucson, AZ , US	Please use the money on the infrastruce of CA. school and Education. Will soon be moving back to CA. This my birth state and lived there for 50 years. So I CARE about the state and it's peole
415	Tue May 15 18:35:51 EDT 2012	Kimberly Borden	Concord, CA , UM	Increase the General Law Enforcement fund and increase funds for solving cases!
414	Wed May 02 12:27:05 EDT 2012	james maurer	hesperia, CA , US
413	Fri Apr 27 13:06:08 EDT 2012	Loehner	Hof, ot , DE
412	Wed Apr 25 18:20:43 EDT 2012	John McMullen	Oakland, CA , US
411	Tue Apr 24 12:23:51 EDT 2012	Max Davies	Dana Point, CA , US
410	Sat Apr 21 21:13:44 EDT 2012	Tak-Ming Wan	chandler, AZ , US	public transport, health care, education
409	Sun Apr 15 20:27:20 EDT 2012	Juan Ibarra	Greenfield, CA , US

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