HB31

Criminal Justice- Death Penalty
===__Purpose__- Everyone makes mistakes. So why should a person have to lose their life for their mistakes? We believe it is wrong for someone to have to give their life for their actions. We think it is more fitting for a person to spend his or her life in prison. So therefore, the purpose of our bill is to abolish the death penalty. The death penalty has already been abolished in 12 U.S. states and 83 other countries around the world, and only half of the U.S. states have executed a prisioner in the past 11 years. === ===__Eligibility__- Our bill will save the lives of those people who are currently on death row. It will also reduce taxes for people that live in areas that have the death penalty because the expensive lethal injections will no longer have to be made. It is cheaper for a person to spend there life in prison then to create the very expensive injection to end the criminal's life. ===

We have a few step program that will abolish the death penalty and lower takes.
===1.We will make prisons larger by raising tax dollars until the prisons are complete. We could also use vacant prisons that aren't being used to hold criminals which saves money of expanding current prisons. It also makes good use of the vacant prisons today. Expanding prisons make more space for criminals because the death penalty would be abolished. === ===2. Then, we will take all of the criminals off of death row that are currently on death row and place the criminals in the high security prisons from the first step. This increases prison working jobs and saves the lives of the criminals. It also ensures safety because they are high security prisons. ===

__Fiscal Impact-__
Average Prices: Prison workers/ Corrections Employees- $38,380 per year Prison medicine- $266,000 per year Prison beds- $56,000 Prison food- $8.12 per meal overall: $449,294 per year

__Resources__
===Works Cited === ==="Death Penalty." Amnesty International ›. Web. 19 May 2011. === ===// Death Penalty Information Center //. Death Penalty Information Center. Web. 19 May 2011. . ===

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