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: StandDown Texas Project

The High Cost of Vengeance

By Steve Hall

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That's the title of John Diaz' latest San Francisco Chronicle column. LINKExecutions are so rare infrequent in this state that they are more spectacle for the masses than plausible deterrent. The executed tend to be the worst of the worst, with truckloads of aggravating details to their crimes. None was stopped by the threat of state-sanctioned death. We must ask ourselves: Is this really worth it? And:At some point, California needs to have a forthright debate about the cost and the efficacy of the death penalty. That moment may be coming in 2010. It has long been a matter of faith that statewide candidates needed to embrace the death penalty. Jerry Brown, the last governor to oppose the death penalty, remained adamantly evasive on the subject in his 2006 campaign for attorney general...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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