What gives you the idea that I was endorsing mob rule? Please consider that in taking your position you may be hasty with some posters and be drawing a different conclusion.
I am questioning you statement that it should not be easy to kill someone. I am attempting to point out that it isn't. His charges arose in 1979, that's not a negligible fact. I would be surprised if you would argue that it was easy for the government to get to this point.
I certainly did not think that in anything I was writing, especially supporting due process which you reference, that I was endorsing mob rule.
While the Governor certainly has the legal authority to give clemency, he does have to face the consequences. Because as for all executive acts, he is answerable to the voters. That doesn't mean mob rule unless the Governor decides that it does. It also doesn't mean necessarily that if the Governor does not grant clemency that it is mob rule.
You are free to call it such. I am free to disagree.
But let's also point out that the courts in California are not the same as courts in red states. So for the appeals court in California to rule 6-0 against lifting the death penalty says something.
Mob rule on this issue is rampany here today. Folks freeping, folks yelling their vote is based on this. Its quite disgusting. The governor has an awsome responsibility and I for one think that it should be done without a crowd yelling at him.