For those who can't put aside the moral issues related to the death penalty or the problem of killing innocent people from time to time or the disproportionate percentages related to race, maybe the budget problems will have an impact. Let the far right defend breaking the budget and siding with the death penalty rather than something far more valuable or effective. CNN:
At 678, California has the nation's largest death row population, yet the state has not executed anyone in four years.
But it spends more than $130 million a year on its capital punishment system -- housing and prosecuting inmates and coping with an appellate system that has kept some convicted killers waiting for an execution date since the late 1970s.
This is according to a new report that concludes that states are wasting millions on an inefficient death penalty system, diverting scarce funds from other anti-crime and law enforcement programs.
