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Texas has the way to do it, three credible witness's and no one says differently and its murder You Go Night Night. I work with a guy "Stanley" who told me he wakes up everyday and first thing in his mind is a man murdered his sister and mother in 2003 and got life! No what he got was away with it! Free meals, free room and board, free medical, daily workouts, TV air conditioned living and who knows, some day a Governor may say, we have so much over crowding I have to release some people for good behavior!

I don't know how he does it, I wouldn't sleep until I was sure he wasn't breathing anymore!

SAFE California's ballot initiative to end the death penalty is dishonest, impractical, and would only increase the violence in and out of our prisons. This website explains why Californians strongly support the death penalty.

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I have to put my 2 cents worth in here.

Prisons cost this country billions, BILLIONS with a B. Not a M. It costs taxpayers between 30 to 70k a year for 1 inmate, ONE. They get 3 hots and a cot. That includes 3 good meals, clean sheets, clean clothes, all free, they don't pay for it, the taxpayers do. Then they get T.V. FREE, they get magazines, books to read. They get radios to listen to, or CD players, life is grand at Club Med. So one Prison may have 1000 Prisoners, now figure in the cost above from the low end to the high end, and you can figure out the cost for just 1 prison, and there may be 10 or more in 1 state, and that is how it is all over the United States. Of course some prisons have more inmates.

I remember a article I read sometime back about a doctor that was on staff part-time in the California penal system, his salary was 300k a year, and what was worse some guards were making 100k a year or more. That is amazing. It might be a difficult job, but it shouldn't be paying that well.

Now for those that want to eliminate the Death penalty. Sorry I must throw out the BULL@!$%# flag, and I will tell you why, You have a criminal that goes into a liquor store, he/she brandishes a gun, and says "give me all the cash in the register!!!" then proceeds to blast the clerk behind the counter, because he/she believes the truth that, DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES. Well, unbeknownst to the criminal now killer, that clerk had a wife, 2 kids, a mortgage, and even more to that, the right to live, but the criminal now killer is now free to go on to the next place, until caught.

But what still remains is the wife, the 2 children, and the mortgage, and possibly they didn't have life insurance, now there on the street, thanks to the wonderful criminal now killer.

So now is the day he/she gets caught, he/she goes to jail, and he/she is arraigned, and is set for trial. When the trial begins the wife is there, with the 2 children, the criminal is hoping he just gets a reduced prison sentence, the wife is there hoping he gets the Death Penalty, but wait there is no DEATH PENALTY, why because all you bleeding heart criminal killer lovers think that hey, he/she is just a victim of his environment. He/she didn't have a fair chance in life. Sorry, that don't fly, the criminal had a choice, he could have walked out of the store, or he could have thought of another way of doing things, but didn't. It is the path he/she took, no one made that decision for them.

The Death Penalty serves a purpose, but the Prison system should be the first place before all else is considered as being the place that needs to be changed first.

For one the prison should not be a place that is of comfort, it should be miserable, it should be unforgiving, it should be one step from being at the gates of hell. They should be given the worse existence of life on earth, you commit a crime, you get a punishment to fit it. What that should be could be anything, but I would think that prisons should go back to the days of Boulder pounder's and Chain gangs. Dawn to Dusk, as soon as they get up and have breakfast they are out in the yards with a ball and chain connected to their leg, and they are given a sledgehammer to break boulders down, or out cleaning the sides of the road, weeding, making trails, cleaning our State parks, and rivers, ALL DAY, EVERYDAY of their sentence, and if it is life, then you have a lot to look forward to, anything but a Club Med. They should come out fearing all authority, if a pencil drops in store they should run for cover, they should be ones that have fear in their lives.

They should fear prison, and all Prison's should be feared.

No more habitual criminals, you make a mistake once, make it out of prison alive, it should be a reminder, that if you see those walls on the outside, they should be the last you ever see them.

As for those that are on DEATH ROW, as soon as their sentence is handed down, and there is no shadow of doubt that they were the perpetrator of the crime, that all evidence has and was played out on both sides, and the jury hands out the verdict, that they get a week to get their affairs in order, and once that is accomplished and all the goodbyes are complete, if they want to do so that is, that there sentence is carried out immediately. Once people see that, and those that are considering to do a crime, and hear the horror stories of a prison like I stated above, hopefully it will make them reconsider it, before doing it, and if not. Well their fate will be their own, as I said before no one else made them do it.

The Death Penalty serves it's purpose, it gives those that are the true victim's peace, and the families of the criminal shame, as it should. Now I may be harsh, but as I observe our country we are lenient with about everything, including our prisons. When do we say enough? We are becoming a society of wimps, those that commit murder are more important than the victim's.

I have to digress for a moment, granted some of our laws are archaic, when it comes to current drugs, such as marijuana, or cocaine. Years ago, many years ago it was a legal medicinal product, it only became a legal issue, because of addiction, and a funny thing is we have legal Pharmaceuticals that are just as addictive, and kill just a much as illegal drugs do, or more so, and much of our problems in this country are because of drugs, but if legalized they might not be as big a issue as once thought, but hey that's just me, and those that use drugs are treated worse than murderers, go figure. But lets drop the death penalty and be lenient on those poor unfortunates.

Our criminal system needs work, our prisons definitely need work, but the Death Penalty, well that needs to stay in place, as it should scare those that commit a crime to death, knowing that it could be used against them in sentencing.

Life should not be easy in prison when you commit a crime, if it is, that's up to you if you want them to have that easy life, because it's your taxes, and you pay them, and remember you work for 20 or 30 years to finally sit on your ass, and collect what is due you, they just have to commit a crime, and they get it all for free, with you footing the bill. And if they are on Death row, and they decide to have it commuted to life without parole, well they just were handed that gold watch you were going to be given on retirement, and don't forget you will be paying their salary while they are in there, 3 hots and a cot, free T.V., magazines and books, and yard time, and the occasional chess or checkers, maybe even a card game for cigarettes, all paid for by the taxpayers.

Ain't life grand.

Tell you what, California. You can get rid of the death penalty if you drop 3 strikes and only allow for violent felons to be locked up for life. You must also legalize marijuana. You must also crack down on illegal immigration. Do these 3 and you'll save tons of money.

I'm all for not executing people if we can lower the population of people in prison

If the death penalty is abolished in November, maybe it's time. We've really never had one in California due to the concern for unnecessary pain the condemned may feel, umm, okay, and the rambling on for years of the appeals process that costs millions of dollars annually. I wonder where all the money saved will go if it's abolished. And I can't wait to see what the next level of sentencing the drums will be sounding for - maybe the abolishment of "Life without the possibility of parole." I can't wait to hear what those reasons will be.

For those who may have forgotten and those that weren't around, research the Stephanie Bryan murder case that began in Berkeley, CA on April 28, 1955 and ended on March 15, 1957. Amazing how time changes our thinking process.

I've always been a proponent of the death penalty but I think I'm going to vote to abolish another useless law. Then I'll start my campaign to have all RED and ORANGE traffic lights changed to GREEN, because that's how they're treated too nowadays.

May as well abolish it here in the People's Republik. Nobody ever gets executed. Just appeal after appeal. Now if we had an express lane like Texas...................

I live in California and I am voting for the death penalty. I want to live long enough to read that Richard Wade Farley, the mass murderer of 1989, is executed and has stopped wasting time, money and space that could be used for better things. He murdered 7 people and wounded (tortured) 4. as well as doing great harm the the families of the vicitm's. He was caught with his tools of destruction and had numerous witness's. There is no reason that these "smoking gun" cases should be allowed to live and put other people in jeopardy.

As far as the 3 injections being cruel and unusual punishment, why don't they just hire a vet he puts huge animals down with just one injection.

If you have a murder case without a "smoking gun" and have to go out and make your case, life without parole. If you catch them at the scene with their tools of destruction and many witness's, especially in mass murder incidents. the death penalty carried out as soon as possible.

Lawyers are the only ones in these cases that gain anything from it and it is our tax dollar paying for it.

Reba

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But of course California should do this- they should take all that extra budget money and pay for these killers living expenses and food for the remainder of their lives. Yes, my home state is a flippin mess.

All this talk about how the death penalty costs more than life in prison is stupid. Killing a person that deserves it isn't expensive at all. Just git er done.

It's the ridiculous appeals process that we have that is expensive. It's really simple. If there is iron clad proof that the person is guilty. Then there should be no appeals. The execution should be carried out before the sun goes down.

If there is even the smallest possibility that the person is innocent, then the death penalty should be off the table.

This route would be cheaper than the way it is now, and cheaper than any proposed solution that I've seen.

Why not change the law now to one appeal only for death row inmates. With todays dna we shoundnt make the same mistakes as in the past. Laweys ,doctors, dentists, shrinks, will be happy, more work for them and better for the economy. If you execute murderes then this might stop people from doing the crimes. This country is run by lawyers and they con the people into laws to help themselves! If someone mudered my child or a family member or friend i want the death penalty. America is being taken over by gangs and criminals and we are to dumd to realize it!!! Laweys are profiting from it!