Death in Decline ’09: Los Angeles Holds California Back as Nation Shifts to Permanent Imprisonment
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Apr. 18, 2011
ANNOTATION: California sent more people to death row in 2009 than in the previous seven years with Los Angeles County sentencing the most individuals in the country. The costs per year associated with keeping 700 people on death row in California could be used to provide one million children with health care. The need to shift away from the death penalty in this time of fiscal crisis is explained by this report. Sections following an executive summary are: California death sentences in 2009; a crisis within a crisis; the costs of the nation’s largest death penalty; the changing fee of death row; and conclusion. Replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment (life without parole) would save the state of California hundreds of millions of dollars.
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