Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Judy Kerr on Cost in California

By Steve Hall

The current issue of Sacramento's Capitol Weekly carries commentary from Judy Kerr, "Looking at the death penalty: Let?s talk about murder."There is hardly a topic more complex and disturbing than the death penalty. Yet, when it comes to talking about what lies at its core ? murder ? there are some fairly straightforward elements that are often ignored.First, solving murders is the best deterrent to murder. Those who get away with murder, learn they can. Nearly half of all murders in California go unsolved, year after year, according to the new report The Silent Crisis in California: Unsolved Murders, by California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. This is a deadly public safety failure that can no longer be ignored...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).