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The Cost of California Death Row

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pquot;a href=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/17/BAET14PGO7.DTL2 lawmakers team up to oppose new Death Row/a,quot; is Bob Egelko#39;s report in today#39;s San Francisco Chronicle./pdiv style=margin-left: 40px;span id=articlebodypTwo legislators from opposing parties and with opposite views on the death penalty joined Tuesday to propose cutting off funding for a new $395 million Death Row at San Quentin, calling it a boondoggle that a financially strapped state can#39;t afford./p pquot;The Death Row expansion is a bottomless money pit,quot; said state Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Atwater (Merced County)./p pquot;We should use this opportunity, with the state running out of cash, to step back and rethink this project,quot; said Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, who joined Denham at a news conference in front of the aging Marin County prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).