Many people also have the misconstrued image that their precious tax dollars could be saved by simply offing the inmate. But, presented with fact from a study done in affiliation with Haylie Mitchell's book (20), the United Nation reports the amount to kill a prisoner (around 3.2 million) rather than hold them 40 years in maximum security is 3 times as much money. This cost includes clothing, food and shelter in a prison cell along with all their appeals they will make to a judge, which could be a process as long as two to three years. In California they could save nearly $90,000,000 per year, according to the same United Nation study conducted and printed in Death Penalty by Haylie Mitchell (64), by abolishing the death penalty and giving life imprisonment. So not only are societies wasting tax dollars that could go to bullet proof vests for police, proper investigations, or treatment for drug and anger abuse programs; but in no way are the states with the death penalty any safer or better. Forty-three percent of the nation's death row population comes from California (629), Texas (453), and Florida (364). Not coincidently these states have the highest crime rate, which is proven by the United Nations study conducted in 1994 and documented in Death Penalty (60) which shows violent crime rates are higher in Texas and Florida, states that are pro death penalty. If killing the society's killers is only provoking more and more killing and more and more waste of tax dollars, those states are simply wasting money.
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