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Cost of California Death Row Roils Editorial Boards

By Steve Hall

Sunday's Sacramento Bee carried the editorial, "What price is too high for death row?" In a twisted sense of timing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has placed the exorbitant cost of California's theoretical death penalty squarely before the public again. The Schwarzenegger administration announced last week that it plans to borrow $64.7 million from the state's cash-strapped general fund to accelerate construction of a new death row at San Quentin State Prison. The administration's call for bids to build new digs for condemned inmates comes as the governor's lawyers seek court approval to furlough state workers and cut their pay to minimum wage, and as he pushes to end safety net services for some of California's poorest and most vulnerable citizens...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).