HB17

HB17 Sponsors: T, Crone, Ohio, Democrat, R. Hoenigman, TX, Democrat, L. Spape, NY, Democrat

Issue Category and Bill Title: Criminal Justice Approve the Death Penalty in the U.S.

Purpose: The purpose of this bill is to enforce a law throughout the United States of America where every state will imply the death penalty. These states will only preform capital punishment through lethal injections and no other way. Lethal injections will kill the person by first putting the person to sleep, then stopping the breathing and heart in that order. We are trying to lower crime rates within America by enforcing this law. We are trying to build this bill without going against our Constitution.

Eligibility: This bill will affects every United States citizen except the mentally handicap. It will also include the prisons throughout the U.S.

Terms and Benefits: Each state will all have a prison in the middle of the state where lethal injections will be held. Each of these prisoners on death row will be held in these prisons a few days prior to their injections. Each person will be put through the Supreme Court and no one will get judge with bias. The people will only be judge if they have committed a very serious crime. Each injection room in the prison will be up-to-date with health and sanitary standards. Each injection will be done by professional and certified medical personal. TV advertisements and bill boards will be made to raise awareness of the death penalty being set into place. This will give people a reason to not commit crimes.

Fiscal Impact: The bill we be payed for by raising taxes. The tax money will pay for the drugs used in the injection, all the sanitary needs, all the proper equipment and the jobs for the medical personal to do the injection. The injection itself cost around eighty-nine dollars per injection. Ads and billboards will cost around 3 million dollars total. Funeral cost will be payed by the family of the prisoner.