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The recently elected Texas state legislature, for example, most of those States, is facing large budget deficits in 2011 that are going to need some innovative solutions to solve. Contrary to the federal government, Texas is required by law to present a balanced budget. Texas legislators are in the unenviable position of considering new taxes that their constituents don't need or cutting off benefits and country budgets that can cost jobs and induce hardships on the constituents.

Some states are beginning to look at the high prices associated with implementing the death penalty. Despite the fact that capital punishment is supported by the majority of taxpayers in Texas, they might be forced to consider options such as life in prison without parole for only economic reasons. Some Facts on Texas Executions and Death Row. The Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972.

A year after this decision was overturned and the death penalty was reinstated. Texas executed its first prisoner after reinstatement in December 1982. Since then 464 individuals have been put to death by lethal injection in the state of Texas, more than every other nation. The average time an inmate spends on death row is 10.6 years. The biggest number of executions was conducted in 2000 when 40 people have been executed. All executions are performed at the State Prison in Huntsville, an east Texas town of just over 35, 000. The intensive and appeals procedure is set to prevent the possible execution of a person innocent of the crime that is accused.

At the last 3 decades 130 individuals have been released from death row in the U.S. Due to exoneration by improved DNA examination. Lately the case of Cameron Todd Willingham who was executed in 2004 in Texas for the murder of his three children by arson has come under fire. A re-examination of the case by the Texas Forensic Science Commission has cast doubts on the validity of the prosecution's case against Willingham. There has been an ongoing debate over capital punishment from the U.S. For several years. It is centered on constitutionality or morality questions. With the current economic situation facing lots of our states, the debate might not be if the death penalty is wrong, but whether it is affordable.

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