Posted on 07/28/2022 10:35:08 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has asked a local judge to reverse the death penalty handed down to a murderer who executed two innocent college students, one from Japan, in a car hijacking in the parking lot of a grocery store in 1994.
The controversial prosecutor, who won election in 2020 with the help of tmillions of dollars in spending from left-wing billionaire George Soros, vowed to end the death penalty as soon as he took office.
He continues to pursue that goal, despite a massive crime wave and a likely recall election in November, the result of the largest-ever petition drive in Los Angeles County among angry residents.
The Los Angeles Daily News reported Wednesday:
In a 264-page resentencing recommendation filed this month, Gascón said Raymond Oscar Butler, who was 18 when he killed Takuma Ito and Go Matsuura, should be resentenced to life in prison without parole because at the time he suffered “significant, cognitive impairment.”
“District Attorney Gascón remains committed to ending the death penalty in Los Angeles because it is racist in its application, morally untenable, irreversible, expensive and it has never been shown to deter crime.”
Eric Siddall, vice president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, which represents about 800 Los Angeles County prosecutors, said Gascón position is at odds with jurisprudence.
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What’s the point? If you get the death penalty in CA, you have a 99% chance of dying of either natural causes or old age. I think in the past 30 years or so, there’s been one execution in CA.
Someone needs to take Gascon on a one-way trip to Death Valley & show him the sights-—from underground.
IIRC-—Hillside Strangler has been on Death row for over 35 years...
At a cost of $100,000 per year per prisoner.
Once DP is officially gone, Soros-gascon et al will turn their attention to life-without-parole, then life, then 30 years, then 20, etc. etc. In each case, as the maximum possible penalty, they will argue it is inhumane, cruel, unusual, you know the drill.
How much does that cost taxpayers per day/week/month/year?
If that judge has some wit, he should rule on a continuance until December. That would suck the wind out of Gascón’s sails. Then he should make a call to the Japanese embassy, who I’m sure would have some very constructive opinions on the matter.
Their current Minister of Justice is very pro-death penalty.
I don't think there has been an execution in CA since Ah-nuld was governor, in 2006. Cookie-Whats-his name....
Tookey
I remember this crime very well. Two innocent young men mercilessly executed in the parking lot of a supermarket. I believe the man who killed them ended up killing another inmate later on. And Gascon wants to reverse his well-deserved death sentence?! What in the world is happening here?? His recall election cannot come soon enough. Get him out of there, please! He’s an absolute disgrace!!
Look up Ricardo Rene Sanders. He was sentenced to death in 1982, forty years ago, for gunning down customers and employees who he herded into a large walk-in refrigerator at a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles.
He’s still sitting there on Death Row, 40 years later! Appeals still not exhausted. There are many more like him.
A scandal of major proportions.
Democrats are EVIL.
VOTE, DEMOCRATS OUT …
Just to sow chaos when the hell will Soros DIE?
Personally, I’d rather these heinous monsters be sentenced to a lifetime on a chain gang, or breaking big rocks into little rocks. We all die (sometimes horribly) and executions are too humane for these creatures. They need to WISH they got the needle or chair.
and it has never been shown to deter crime.”
= = =
It would stop any more of Raymond Butler’s crime.
I wonder if the Japanese Government has weighed in on this matter.
Didn’t he get recalled?
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