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Commentary on the California Hearing

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Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten writes, "California death row's dicey math."When Tuesday's hearings in Sacramento on proposed changes in California's method of executing convicted murderers veered into a discussion of why solutions to the state's budget crisis ought to include the abolition of capital punishment, it was another example of how divided our attitude on this issue remains.In fact, if you look back through this vexed issue's history here, what emerges clearly is a deep ambivalence -- a popular unwillingness to renounce the death penalty as a symbol of the state's ultimate sanction against criminality, and a persistent current of reluctance to see it imposed too frequently. It's that division that sets California apart from most other capital punishment states...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).