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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This petition has a goal of 1000 signatures
1-25 of 433 signatures
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....
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....
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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