Billion Dollar Death Row

CNNMoney: “Taxpayers have spent $4 billion since 1978 on California’s capital punishment system — and with only 13 executions to show for it.  That’s about $308 million per execution.”

Now Californians may have to abolish the death penalty in order to balance the state budget.  But given that death row in California is such a joke, maybe it’s for the best.  Just another instance of Blue State decline, I suppose…