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California Report Indicts Death Penalty

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

The California Commission on the Death Penalty released its report on June 30, 2008, and I think it is important for Tennesseans, whose legislature is also examining the death penalty with the Tennessee Committee to Study the Administration of the Death Penalty, to reflect on what the California report found. Here are some excerpts:Delays "Thirty persons have been on California's death row for more than 25 years; 119 have been on death row for more than 2o years; and 240 have been on death row for more than 15 years."(In Tennessee, by my count, there are 27 inmates on death row who have been there for 20 years or more. There are 16 inmates who have been there for 15-20 years.)"The families of murder victims are cruelly deluded in to believing that justice will be delivered with finality during their lifetimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).