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Dear Governor, Cut This!
Launched: July 16, 2010
This Action Expired: September 15, 2010
Description:
California’s fiscal crisis is hurting us all. In Los Angeles the city is unable to afford overtime for homicide investigators. In Oakland police officers are being laid off, and statewide the fund for victims of violent crimes was cut by $50 million. To close the state's $20 billion budget gap, Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed slashing almost everything, including the pay of state workers (to minimum wage) and eliminating life-saving social services.
California wastes millions of dollars on its dysfunctional death penalty—more than $126 million per year. Plus we’re poised to spend another $400 million on a new death row facility (since the current one is too rundown to hold the nation’s largest death row population).
There are better ways to close the budget gap without risking public safety. Governor Schwarzenegger has the power to convert all death sentences to permanent imprisonment and save the state $1 billion without releasing a single prisoner. Permanent imprisonment is a safe and cost effective alternative to the death penalty that provides crime victims with swift and certain justice. It’s time for Californians to demand that we stop wasting millions on executions and CUT THIS!
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