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Death Penalty

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.

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Death Penalty

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  1. Death Penalty By: Emilio Padilla

  2. State Budget • Made up of 3 different State Funds • General fund • Bond fund • Special funds • General Fund • This is the fund that gives prisons supportand is designated by law for special purposes

  3. 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

  4. Process • Includes everything not mandatory in the budget • Transportation • International Affairs • Military • Programs required by law to provide certain health benefits

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. More Economically efficient ways In other countries they like to use different cheaper methods such as: • Stoning • Hanging • Firing squad

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Stoning

  12. Hanging • This means to kill someoneby 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 usedmultiple times • You can also hang many people at once from the same post or a branch

  13. Hanging

  14. 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

  15. Firing Squad

  16. 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.

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