Davis / 1 Senator DeMeo

S.B._____
A BILL

To abolish capital punishment.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Capital Savings Act of 2015.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) California's legendarily slow appeals system, which produces an average wait of nearly 20 years from conviction
to fatal injection the longest in the nation
2) It is cheaper to imprison killers for life than to execute them, according to a series of recent surveys
3) The median cost of a case in which the Attorney General authorized seeking the death penalty was nearly eight
times greater than the cost of a case that was eligible for capital prosecution but in which the death penalty was not
authorized.
4) According to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which monitors federal prosecutions for the
Defender Services program, there were 26 death-eligible defendants in 1993, 63 in 1994, and then upwards of 150 in
almost every subsequent year.
5) The courts, too, spend more on death penalty cases, which typically take years to bring to trial and many months
of court time once the trial begins.
6) Simply questioning jurors about their death penalty views and identifying death qualified jurors often takes
longer than it would to try a non-death penalty case from start to finish
7) The death penalty is cheap only if it is carried out quickly. Putting in place the necessary safeguards to prevent
wrongful convictions often makes legal proceedings lengthy and much more costly than the longest prison sentence
8) Long delays in carrying out executions postpone closure and psychological healing for victims and their families,
in a way that the perpetrators return to prison to begin a life sentence without parole does not
9)In New York: Between 1995 and 2004, taxpayers spent about $200 million on the death penalty with no
executions.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) This bill will reallocate the federal and state funds of capital punishment. Therefore, ceasing to pay for the
existence of capital punishment. Any criminals on death row would be given the sentence of life in prison with no
chance of parole.This bill will be enforced in all federal and state prisons.
B) The money will then be given to the victims of the crimes and to non-profit organizations, such as StandUp For
Kids, to help prevent the development of these criminals.
C) The Office of Management and Budget is the enforcing agency of the federal government.
D)This bill will be enacted January 1st 2017 and has no expiration date.