Issue quote: California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, on Cost - California Crime Victims for Alternatives
California spends $137 million per year to fund our death penalty system. The same amount could instead be used to hire an additional 1,780 criminal investigators or 2,132 crime lab technicians in order to solve more murders.
— "The Silent Crisis in California: Unsolved Murders," a report by California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, April 2010
