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Death Penalty. By: Emilio Padilla. State Budget. Made up of 3 different State Funds General fund Bond fund S pecial funds General Fund This is the fund that gives prisons support and is designated by law for special purposes . Budget. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
"Dollars and Democracy: A Guide to the State Budget Process." California Budget Project, n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2014.
"Should NH Have the Death Penalty?" Death Penalty. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Jan. 2014.
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.