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Natasha Minsker on California's Death Penalty

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"Prosecutors, Cops and Judges: Ready to Ditch California?s Death Penalty," is her post at California Progress Report.  Minsker is the death penalty policy director for the ACLU of Northern California.  It's a must-read recap of the recent debate in her state.In opinion pieces that appeared in papers across California last year, former prosecutors, judges and law enforcement officers raised their voices to declare: enough already, it?s time to ditch the death penalty. Let?s consider what they had to say. Last April, Aundre Herron shared her unique perspective in the Sacramento Bee. Herron began her career as a prosecutor and later became a defense attorney. Yet, nothing in her professional life prepared her for the murder of her older brother Danny...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).