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Editorials Watching California Train Wreck

By Steve Hall

"Execution hurry-up," is the editorial in today's Chino News & Review. In any event, isn?t it comforting to know that, after 90-some days without a state budget and seeing child-care centers and medical clinics closing as funding dries up, we have a spanking-new death chamber at San Quentin? And to think it cost only $853,000. Of course, that?s nothing next to what it?s going to cost to build a new deat-row facility: $400 million. Or the expense of housing up to 1,400 inmates there for decades. Not to mention their legal costs as they make all the appeals to which they?re entitled. The death penalty system costs the state $137 million each year and needs another $95 million annually just to become minimally functional, Chief Justice Ronald M...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).