No Hiatus for Death Penalty

L A TIMES ^ | Jan. 20, 2006 | Jordan Rau,

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An effort to temporarily halt executions in California died in the Legislature on Thursday when majority Democrats grew concerned that the issue could tag the party's candidates as soft on crime in the fall elections.

The measure, which would have created a moratorium while a special commission studied the fairness of California's death penalty, had received a good deal of attention during the campaign last year to stop the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. The co-founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles died by lethal injection on Dec. 13 for committing four murders.

Ron Cottingham, president of the Peace Officers Research Assn. of California, said the state's pre-execution review process was so laborious that a moratorium was not necessary.

[gubamyster]

I guess they killed that idea.

[mtbopfuyn]

Perhaps not soft on crime, but they're still soft in the head.

[Habble Gabble]

Democrats are so stupid about this issue all the time. Even the research they do themselvs-where they twist up all the numbers - at least 99 per% of the people on death row are guilty as hell. It means remove=ing one more evil from the world and thats good.