prisoners have cost the state three hundred million dollars since two thousand and six there have been virago executions and a death penalty prosecutions cost up to twenty times as much as life without parole case so i guess i'm wondering why this goes on still. well we have this illusion that we have a facade to maintain here we have to convince people that society is still running the way we all thought it was supposed to run we have to kind of believe that that the law is working although it's clearly not all around the country but that's a very expensive proposition but the bottom was this what's happening in california is the same is happening in greece and everywhere these cuts now are just the beginning of more draconian cuts and they're based on wildly optimistic projections of future income as far as the death penalty goes. what's more likely i think is that we're going to see california just start to open the gates of prisons and let people out and eventually they may have to do that with the death row people or just just put them up against the wall i don't know how it's going to p