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| The pro and con of repealing death penalty in California |
| By dailynews.com |
| Published: 10/29/2012 |
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Proposition 34 on the Nov. 6 ballot would repeal the state's death penalty option and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. PRO No one gets out alive By Marshall Thompson I executed people for the state of California because it was my job. I support Proposition 34 because I am a law enforcement professional committed to public safety. During 27 years with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, I was directly involved in carrying out the state's orders to put four men to death. For what would have been my fifth execution - one that didn't happen - I was the team leader. As a peace officer, a citizen and a taxpayer, I want public safety to be California's priority when it spends our money. The more than $130 million that we spend on the death penalty every year does not keep our families any safer. What we need to do is to investigate unsolved homicides and rapes. Right now we know that 46 percent of homicides in California go unsolved. Putting our faith in the death penalty makes absolutely no sense when each year we have over 1,000 killers in California who are not even apprehended. Over my many years in San Quentin I learned that the death penalty is not only a horrendous waste of money, but that it is not a deterrent. Read More. |
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