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  • Death Penalty Delays - California's voters continue to support the Death Penalty..time to streamline

    12/28/2005 9:53:30 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 1,267+ views
    CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 12/28/05 | Roy Ashburn
    The recent spotlight on the impending execution of multiple-murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams has once again highlighted the flaws in California’s death penalty law. Williams was put to death at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, after he was denied clemency by Governor Schwarzenegger. Williams was convicted in 1981 of murdering four people and sentenced to death. Yet 26 years after his victims took their final breaths, the killer still lives. His lawyers have continued to maneuver to thwart the sentence duly handed down by a jury of his peers until the very end. Williams’s case demonstrates just how dysfunctional the death penalty...
  • Ashburn: Time to speed up death penalty process

    12/14/2005 9:13:54 PM PST · by calcowgirl · 11 replies · 621+ views
    One Bakersfield ^ | December 14, 2005 | Senator Roy Ashburn
    By Senator Roy Ashburn, 18th Senate District The recent spotlight on the impending execution of multiple-murderer Stanley “Tookie” Williams has once again highlighted the flaws in California’s death penalty law. Williams was put to death at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, after he was denied clemency by Governor Schwarzenegger. Williams was convicted in 1981 of murdering four people and sentenced to death. Yet 26 years after his victims took their final breaths, the killer still lives. His lawyers have continued to maneuver to thwart the sentence duly handed down by a jury of his peers until the very end. Williams’s case...