HB59

**Title:** No more shots!
 * HB59 **

Marc Baltes, Louisiana, Moderate Josh Kane, New Mexico, Moderate
 * Sponsors: **

The purpose of our bill is to stop the death penalty and to protect the rights of criminals. Our bill will help the criminals along with their families because, instead of just having a lethal injection, we think they should live their life to the fullest, even if it is spent the whole time in jail while doing community service. Death is a very severe and painful punishment. Also, the death penalty is the “easy way out.” Instead of your whole life in jail, you are killed in about a minute and 30 seconds. With a lifetime in jail, you would learn from your mistakes, to never do what you have done, even if you never get out. You would have to serve your life in jail and do community service than death, which would be more suffering than death. So, most importantly, our bill is to stop the death penalty and protect the rights of criminals.
 * Purpose: **

Mostly, the families of victims, and the criminals would be affected by this bill. This is because when a family member is killed and the person who does it instead of a death in a family, you can still see him in jail. For the victims’ families, they know that the criminal is still out there, but they know he will have to serve a lifetime in jail, and doing community service.
 * Eligibility: **

•These jails are only for people who would have had a death sentence, but since this bill is in place, they are sent to these certain types of jails. •Separates very brutal criminals from less harsh ones with these types of jails. •Criminals in these death sentenced jails will be in these jails for the rest of their lives, unless they pay the fine of $500,000. Otherwise, they are there forever doing community service as well. •Jail social workers are paid $50,000 per year •Jail guards are paid $70,000 •Workers switch out every month to see families, etc... •If the prisoner is let out, they still get the rights as any normal citizen, just a part on their record for jail time of a death sentence.
 * Terms and Benefits: **

Jail cells: $400,000 per year Jail workers: $50,000 per year Food: $40,000 - $60,000 per year Guards: $70,000 per year All of our costs will be government funded because jails are provided by the government, making the cost by the government.
 * Fiscal Impact: **