1. Mariana Guiza

2.  Death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime.

3.  $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)

4.  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.

5.  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

6.  Second Stage  Multiple more issues rise like new discovered evidence

7.  Final Stage  Can raise issues outside the trial record  Judge can overturn the sentence

8.  Governor can postpone the execution to another time  Can make the case a lesser sentence

9.  Spends $47,102 on a person

10.  Prisons spend about $20,000 on security

11.  Medical Care  $9,000  Psychiatric Services  $2,000  Pharmaceuticals  $1,000  Dental Care  $1,000

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

13.  Food  $2,000  Activities  $1,000  Clothing  $200

14.  Academic Education  $1,000  Vocational Training  $500  Substance Abuse Programs  $500

15.  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.

16.  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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