I simply believe they have had long enough and the Governor decided that the facts do not justify clemency.
I believe in the process. The appeals process takes too long to even begin in California..
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=1735
WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG
Inmates linger on California’s death row for nearly two decades. Why?
by Kelly Davis
Before this issue of CityBeat is off the stands, 46-year-old Kevin Cooper will be the 11th person put to death in California since the Supreme Court here reinstated the death penalty in 1977 after a five-year moratorium.
Cooper has been on death row just a few months shy of 19 years, put there by a San Diego jury for the 1983 murder of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica and 11-year-old Christopher Hughes, a friend of the family; a judge moved the trial from San Bernardino to San Diego due to the excessive publicity it was getting up north. Dubbed the “Chino Hills Massacre,” all four victims were hacked and slashed repeatedly with a knife and hatchet. Eight-year-old Joshua Ryen survived the attack despite having his throat slit.
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