DEATH PENALTY Mariana Guiza WHAT IS DEATH PENALTY

DEATH PENALTY Mariana Guiza

WHAT IS DEATH PENALTY? � Death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.

HOW MUCH MONEY IS SPENT ONT THE DEATH PENAITY? � $1. 9 billion (trial costs) � $925 million (automatic appeals and state habeas corpus petitions) � $775 million (federal habeas corpus appeals) � $1 billion (costs of incarceration)

IN CALIFORNIA… �Since 1978 4 billion dollars have bin spent in California for the courses of using the death penalty � 11 executions cost about 90, 000 dollars.

DIRECT APPEAL �First stage �The states highest court can attempt an appeal from a conviction and death sentence �After reviewing the case, the judge can state the conviction and reverse the death sentence

State Post-Convictions �Second Stage �Multiple more issues rise like new discovered evidence

Federal Habeas Corpus � Final Stage � Can raise issues outside the trial record � Judge can overturn the sentence

Executive Clemency �Governor can postpone the execution to another time �Can make the case a lesser sentence

Life in Prison � Spends $47, 102 on a person

Type of Expenditure � Prisons spend about $20, 000 on security

Inmate Health Care � Medical � $9, 000 Care � Psychiatric � $2, 000 Services � Pharmaceuticals � $1, 000 � Dental Care � $1, 000

Operations � Facility � $5, 000 Operations � Classification Services � $2, 000 � Maintenance of inmate records � $1, 000 � Reception, testing, assignment and transportation � $500

Inmate Support � Food � $2, 000 � Activities � $1, 000 � Clothing � $200

Rehabilitations � Academic � $1, 000 Education � Vocational Training � Substance Abuse � $500 Programs � $500

How would I make changes? �I think that I would stop the death penalty and make the prisoners stay in prison for the rest of their life. � The money that is use for the death penalty can be use for important stuff not killing people. Like making more prisons.

Why? � Because its wrong � It’s a waste of money � If they make more prisons than they don’t have to kill them.

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