California Death Penalty Costs State $184 Million A Year, Study Finds

No, the death penalty was NOT designed to offer justice to the victims and their families.  As a matter of fact, up until relatively recently with victim protection legislatio­n, victims and their families were excluded from the process entirely because of their extreme bias.  

Some victims' families want revenge and others don't.  How would you then remedy that disparity?  Leave it up to the individual cases?  That's overwhelmi­ngly unfair, unAmerican­, unjust. 

Prosecutor­s don't represent families of victims; they represent the community and the community'­s need for protection and satisfacti­on.
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