Voters in California tomorrow will vote on Proposition 34, an initiative to repeal the state?s death penalty and replace it with life in prison without possibility of parole. The California Department of State?s website on the initiative states the following:
[Summary of Prop 34]: Repeals death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Applies retroactively to existing death sentences. Directs $100 million to law enforcement agencies for investigations of homicide and rape cases. Fiscal Impact: Ongoing state and county criminal justice savings of about $130 million annually within a few years, which could vary by tens of millions of dollars.
A ?yes? vote on Proposition 34 would vote for repeal.
We?ve written numerous pieces on the death penalty on this blog over the past two years. In three of the pieces on California?s death penalty (here, here, and here), we discussed the central issue of the taxpayer cost of maintaining a death penalty system that has not executed anyone since 2006. Quoting the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast (linked at the start of this post) discusses the costs and savings, and the implications of each:
This year, California?s death row will cost taxpayers $184 [million]. What will the state get for that price? The same number of executions as last year, and the year before that, and every year since 2006: zero.
A solution has been offered: the state?s worst offenders would die in prison of natural causes, just as they are doing on death row today ? only now, taxpayers would save $130 [million] a year.
But while cost is the foremost issue driving Prop 34, we cannot forget another critical factor centrally relevant to death penalty concerns: the risk of executing a wrongfully convicted person.
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