Letters: Prop. 34 and California's death row
Re "Prop. 34's appeal to reason," Editorial, Oct. 24. The Times points out that the campaign against Proposition 34, which would abolish the death penalty in California, is "going for the emotional jugular." Proposition 34's opponents claim to be ...www.latimes.com
Support for end to California death penalty surges
Voter support for a ballot measure to repeal California's death penalty has jumped dramatically, though not enough to ensure its passage, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found.www.latimes.com
"The death penalty is a joke."
The California death penalty is on the ballot as Prop 34; proponents are, with impressive chutzpah, now using the cost of defending against these appeals as an argument for abolition rather than as an argument for replacing the judges who abuse the law.www.pointoflaw.com
Death penalty repeal backed by German official
He visited the Bay Area this month to meet with supporters of Proposition 34, which would repeal the death penalty in California, and to visit Death Row at San Quentin State Prison. A previous U.S. visit included meetings and "good debates' with ...www.sfgate.com
Campaign to abolish California's death penalty begins airing ads
"Do you know we have the death penalty in California?" actor Edward James Olmos asks in a radio spot for Proposition 34.www.latimes.com
Letters: Prop. 34
Not long thereafter, the same kind of commission in California discovered that nearly all the lethal problems found there also exist here.www.nctimes.com
A Death Row Struggle Between Advocates and Lawyers
LIVINGSTON - Preston Hughes III, a death row inmate, is 46 but seems much older, with white hair, thick glasses and a quiet, slow voice that rises only when the subject of his lawyer comes up.www.nytimes.com
Transcript, online chat: Proposition 34, abolishing the death penalty
Oct. 25 at noon: Bay Area News Group reporter Howard Mintz leads a discussion of Proposition 34, which would abolish California's death penalty. His guests will be Jeanne Woodford, Prop. 34 campaign co-chair and former San Quentin warden, and ...www.mercurynews.com
Death penalty request delayed until after election
California voters are faced with Proposition 34 which would prohibit the death penalty and commute the sentences of all California's current Death Row inmates to life without the possibility of parole. San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe ...www.smdailyjournal.com
Why Conservatives Like Bill O'Reilly and Me Support Proposition 34
In 1978, my father, Senator John Briggs, proposed an initiative to expand California's death penalty and I proudly worked on the campaign.www.foxandhoundsdaily.com
Vote Yes on Prop 34
This is why I believe so strongly in Proposition 34, which will replace California's death penalty with life in prison without possibility of parole.www.huffingtonpost.com
Death row, but where there's life, there's hope
Among those waiting on death row in Indonesian jails are two Australians - the Bali nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran - each of whom has recently applied for clemency from the Indonesian President.www.smh.com.au
Prop 34: Ex-San Quentin Prison Warden Jeanne Woodford Backs California ...
The former warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford, joins us to discuss why she has come out in favor of Proposition 34, a ballot initiative to abolish the death penalty in California. Home to nearly a quarter of the nation's death row ...www.democracynow.org
Prop. 34 puts death penalty on the ballot
SAN DIEGO -- California voters will decide the fate of the death penalty when they cast their votes for Proposition 34 on November 6. "Yes on 34 is the only way to guarantee we don't execute innocent people in California," California Innocence Project ...www.fox5sandiego.com
Former executioners say it's time to kill the death penalty
Givens and McAndrew are touring the Central Valley, sharing their transformation from executioners to supporters of Prop 34, which abolishes the death penalty in California and replaces it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Givens ...www.bakersfieldnow.com
Legalized doping, death penalty, veterans' benefits: Opinion roundup
The newspaper cites a study showing the death penalty costs California taxpayers more than $180 million a year even when sentences are not carried out.www.oregonlive.com
Death penalty sought in East El Paso triple slayings
State prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty against Luis Javier Solis Gonzalez, the man accused in the triple slayings of his estranged wife, her boyfriend and her teenage daughter.www.elpasotimes.com
Campaign to Repeal California's Death Penalty
Sacramento, Calif. Wrongfully convicting and sentencing an innocent person is the focus of a new tv ad by the campaign to repeal California's death penalty. While the man featured in the ad was wrongfully convicted then exonerated twenty years later, ...www.kionrightnow.com
Should California Kill Its Death Penalty?
For the first time in nearly 35 years, California voters will decide on the fate of the state's death penalty law.blogs.kqed.org
Convincing reasons needed to scrap death penalty — Lee
Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye. SIBU: The government would need to have cogent reasons should it decide to scrap the death penalty for drug offenders, says Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.www.theborneopost.com
No comments:
Post a Comment