States like California could save $90 million dollars. In California, taxpayers get paid $114 million a year by the death row costs. The state has killed 13 individuals since 1976 for a cost around $250 million every murder (death penalty info. center). There are better places for the money to go such as education, technology, and other uses for public funding which our country really needs in some parts of our Country. Another waste of money is when executing someone by a lethal injection. A lethal injection is a procedure of capital punishment where an individual is injected chemicals in their body to kill the person. Most dangerous injections use a supply of drugs to reduce unconsciousness and ultimately death, it cost even more money (death penalty overview). The amount spent on it raised up to a couple of thousand dollars which is more money the government doesn't need to