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| Bipartisan effort to stop new death row |
| By The Marin Independent Journal |
| Published: 12/18/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - Citing the state's $40 billion budget deficit as their rationale, Assemblyman Jared Huffman joined a Republican state senator Tuesday to announce they have joined forces in another effort to scuttle new housing for death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison. Huffman, D-San Rafael, and Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Merced, staged a press conference outside the east gate of the prison to make the announcement. On Wednesday, during a special legislative session on the state's budget crisis, Huffman and Denham will jointly introduce legislation that would cut off funding for the death row expansion. "These are hard times for California, and while Democrats and Republicans have not yet reached agreement on how to bridge a $40 billion deficit, Senator Denham and I are reaching across party lines to offer one piece of the solution: stopping prison bureaucrats from committing a $1.6 billion blunder by building a new Cadillac death row," Huffman said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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