Capital Punishment One Of The Least Enforced Forms Of...

Marco Ceballos Shanna Munoz English 1A 17744 November 3, 2014 Death Penalty Capital punishment is one of the least enforced forms of punishments in California. The state currently faces a large deficit and continues to hold inmates for life sentences. One hundred and fourteen dollars are spent daily on each inmate in California. That is more than what most Californians earn in a hardworking day at a minimum wage pay job. Thanks to inmate advocates, Californians spend millions on inmates verse spending on education and health for the work class. Capital punishment should be enforced in California more often to get rid of problems such as prison overcrowding and reducing, the increase the state deficit, and as well as restore the victim’s†¦show more content†¦According to death penalty.org, in California, â€Å"The reasonable expectation of an individual contemplating a capital crime in California then is that if he is caught, it does not matter whether he is sentenced to death-realistically faces only life imprisonment.† Under such cir cumstances California is unable to grow financially and flow funds to areas such as health care and education to its working class. Education, is one of the areas greatly affected by the deficit, the prison punishment system currently incorporated in California does not help the high rising deficit. Aging prisoners sentenced to life contribute to the raising state debt. Rather than executing a prisoner after the twenty year mandatory sentence prior to death, an average 34 year sentence would cost the state and average of $1.598 million dollars per inmate. (Mountain news.com) That is twenty times more than an average California minimum wage employee earns in a lifetime. Figures such as this rather than deterring criminal minds from crime, give a financial motive to remain in prison for life. Due to the large difference between living in and outside of the prison system most former prisoners often return to their prison life because of the notion that they are well nourished and care d for within the walls of a prison versus facing real life struggles such