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Editorial Response to California Commission - UPDATED

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Today's San Jose Mercury News carries the editorial, "Death penalty system requires a major overhaul." California has the death penalty basically in name only. With 13 executions in 30 years and 673 inmates now on the nation's largest death row, capital punishment has turned into life without parole - at a stiff price for taxpayers. "Fixing" a system marred by delays and poor legal representation would cost an additional $95 million per year, according to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. That's money that California, facing a $15 billion deficit, doesn't have - and if it did, should have plenty of spending priorities higher than executions. We agree with a minority of the 22-member commission who call for abolishing the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).