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Today's San Francisco Chronicle carries the OpEd, "Replace death penalty with permanent improisonment."  It's written by Jon Streeter, Bill Hing and Diane Bellas; all served on the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. After spending four years on the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, we were pleased to see state Sen. Tom Harmon, R-Huntington Beach, cite our commission's report on the death penalty in his June 15 Open Forum piece, "Legal stalling packs Death Row." We are concerned, however, that Harmon did not disclose the reasons we concluded that California's death penalty is not working. He also failed to disclose that it will cost more than $230 million a year to fix it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).