Proposition 34 The inception of Proposition 34 provoked a huge debate in California dividing the state into two parties. This could be the most controversial issues the state of California has ever faced one can say. The proposition seeks to annul the death sentence for convicted people and if effected it will retroactively include felons already convicted with a death sentence. Instead the proposition will replace the death sentence with life imprisonment of convicted felons. However there will be no parole for the convicted felons with the life sentence (Baldassare 254). The proposition also requires the convicted felons to work normally while in prison. Their wages will go to orders against them or awarded to the victim restitution fines. …show more content…
The estimates also indicate that most of the saved money will be mainly from the annulment of death penalty appeals that are currently rampant, high prison costs to maintain the felons with death sentences on their head and the backlog of murder trials. It is also estimated that the state and counties will increase the amount save to about $ 130 million in the subsequent years. Depending on how the proposition will be implemented, the Legislative Analyst’s office further says that the state and counties can save $10 million more or less (Minsker 261). This is in addition to the $100 million grant that comes with the proposition that will see law enforcement agencies benefit for the next 4 years. In this assignment I therefore seek to prove that proposition 34 is indeed a worthy …show more content…
The figure is even meager when counting those who have been executed having expensed the state heavily for decades on death row. Averagely, one person is executed in every one and half years in the past 20 years. The cost of holding inmates with death sentences in special conditions for periods of up to 20 years in most cases, in addition to the expenses of the legal counsel, is no doubt outrageous. Voters of California State need to see that the costs of litigation and incarceration are by far too high for the cash-strapped state to support. The state has spent over $ 4 billion to service capital punishment since it resumed in 1977, nonetheless up until now only 13 inmates have so far been executed. So how effective is this mode of punishment? The current death penalty is nothing but a giant rat-hole that swallows large portions of the Californian state