What’s your life worth? How about your death?

In California, your death could be worth $hundreds of million$!!!

A recent study conducted on the cost of California’s death penalty has found that each of the 13 executions in the last thirty years have cost taxpayers an average of $ 308 million each.

That has got to leave a cash-strapped state’s budget hurting… and California is in massive monetary pain.

This study comes on the heels of California Governor Jerry Brown vetoing the state budget proposed by California lawmakers.

The governor defended his decision, stating,

“It continues big deficits for years to come and adds billions of dollars of new debt.”

Perhaps spending $308 million on a single death row prisoner could be contributing to said deficit?

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 34 states in the U.S. currently allow the death penalty.

What do you think? Is the death penalty worth the price?

Or should more states join the 16 U.S. states that don’t allow it?