Posted on 09/22/2010 7:59:37 AM PDT by SmithL
On the day before Easter 2004, David Lee Hill fatally shot San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza and wounded his partner with an AK-47 assault rifle as they approached him for acting suspiciously in the city's Bayview area.
District Attorney Kamala Harris' decision not to seek the death penalty has become a lightning rod in this year's race for state attorney general pitting her against Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, a leader in sending killers to death row.
"Voters are going to want an attorney general who does not impose his or her own personal ideology or political agenda on the office," said Kevin Spillane, Cooley's spokesman. "That, in essence, is what Harris has done."
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Go Steve!
I don’t know if this debate has any meaning. With all the appeals and judicial delays they have in California, a condemned inmate will usually die of old age before being executed.
Kamala Harris would be a disaster as Attorney General, just as she’s been a disaster as District Attorney in San Francisco. I hope she loses BIG.
Electric bleachers use them.
but but but he was just a young gangbanger earning his stripes..
same for kamala.. just earning her stripes.
time to send her up the river.. and over the falls.
I was reading in my county newspaper that here in Pennsylvania only three people have been executed since the state resumed capital punishment in the mid-1970s. Most of the hundreds on death row die of ailments, usually those associated with old age. So, California would not be a lot different.
I know that Manson got sentenced to death and then ended up with life in prison after the penalty was abolished. I think that death would be good for him and keep his cohorts with life in prison. It seems to make them suffer more that they live in prison and considering how they keep trying to get out, I cannot imagine a more exquisite form of torture for them.
It would be a more horrible punishment for me to spend the rest of my life locked up.
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