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Can Californians Afford to Keep the Death Penalty?

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That's the title of Elisabeth Semel's must-read OpEd in today's Sacramento Bee.  She is director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley, and the former director of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. It took more than three years of litigation, which the state lost repeatedly, before the attorney general's office conceded that the execution protocol must be open to public scrutiny.Indeed, throughout the legal challenges to California's method of lethal injection, the governor, the attorney general and the Corrections Department unswervingly opposed any disclosures. Even as the process of public notice and comment on the state's lethal-injection protocol begins, a complicated tangle of legal proceedings remains before the state can resume executions...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 17, 2009 (boomark / email).