Criminal
Mar. 31, 2011
Death Penalty Policy, Strangling California’s Budget
California's death penalty is a strain on the state budget and fails to adequately reduce the crime rate. By Jeffrey A. Lowe.
California is in the throes of an extreme financial crisis. As the state cuts basic services to the poor, sick and elderly, California employs a death penalty system that can best be described as wasteful and dysfunctional.
Currently, death penalty trials cost an estimated $1.1 million more than a trial where the district attorney seeks a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Unlike post-conviction costs funded by the st...
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