More of our condemned convicts have died by natural causes and suicide than have actually had their sentences carried out.
It costs thousands more per year per prisoner for death row inmates because of the endless appeals with some sitting there since Carter was in the White House.
There is no way the CA death penalty has a "deterrent" effect.
Make no mistake, this endless red tape has all been by design by activists in and out of black robes to make create a foundation for the case to abolish the death penalty in CA.
T’was a Jimmy Carter judge, a 9th Circus of Appeasers appointee to boot, spent 3 years ‘researching’ for this “study”.
SFgate.com piece today
Study: Death penalty costlier than life sentences
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/21/BA1F1K0ALG.DTL
The three-year study by a federal judge and a law professor also found that California taxpayers have spent an average of $308 million for each of the 13 executions conducted since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1978.
The study was conducted by Judge Arthur Alarcon, who sits on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and his law clerk, Loyola Law School Professor Paula Mitchell, who spent three years examining federal, state and local costs associated with capital punishment....
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Why does the Left hate Justice? Why does the Left hate America and seek to stick it to those very victims it creates thru its policies of destruction of the family and the sanctity of law in a just society?.