Loading ...How can the death penalty cost $137 million a year…and why not the death penalty?
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Kamala Harris has expressed the belief that life without possibility of parole is a better, and more cost-effective, punishment.[177] According to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, the death penalty costs $137 million per year.[178] If the system were changed to life without possibility of parole, the annual costs would be approximately $12 million per year.[178] Harris noted that the resulting surplus could put 1,000 more police officers into service in San Francisco alone.[177]
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Harris is opposed to the death penalty, but has said that she would review each case individually.[173] Her position was tested in April 2004, when SFPD Officer Isaac Espinoza was murdered in the Bayview district. Harris announced that she would not seek the death penalty for the man accused of his killing. The decision evoked protests from the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and others.[7] Those who supported her decision not to seek the death penalty included San Francisco Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Sophie Maxwell, in whose district the murder occurred.[174] The jury found the convicted killer, David Hill, guilty of second-degree murder, although the prosecutor, Harry Dorfman, had sought a first-degree murder conviction.[175] The defense had argued that Hill thought Espinoza was a member of a rival gang, and that the murder was not premeditated. Hill was given the maximum sentence for the conviction, life without the possibility of parole.[175]
Harris’s position against the death penalty was tested again in the case of Edwin Ramos, an undocumented immigrant and alleged MS-13gang member who was accused of murdering Tony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew.[33] On September 10, 2009, Harris announced she would seek life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than the death penalty in the Ramos case.[176]
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