California: Highest Number of Death Row Inmates
One of the questions Saturday night at the UNAFF film festival, was which three states had the highest number of death row inmates. I could only answer that Texas, North Carolina and Florida all had large numbers, but today i found out that it's actually CALIFORNIA that has the highest number of death row inmates in the nation: 640 of them.
This makes today's DPIC news even more relevant:
A group of 450 attorneys participating in the Conference of Delegates of the California Bar Association has urged a moratorium on the death penalty in California until the state reviews whether capital punishment laws are enforced fairly and uniformly.
Posted by katherine at 12:08 AM
Comments
Unfortunately, for some it is time to proceed quickly within 5 years maximum to implement the death penalty as prescribed by the people of California. We are far too slow in showing other criminals that if you kill someone and planned to do it....... you too will share the same fate with a 2 retrial maximum and if the same verdict comes in twice I feel you go from court to the LI table immediately....
Posted by: Eric J. at November 16, 2004 03:27 AM
Instead of building a new facility for San Quienton, we need to speed up the executions.
Posted by: SIXX at December 14, 2004 12:31 AM
1. Receiving the death penalty is inversly related to how rich you are. The more money you have, the more chances you have of beating the rap. OJ anyone?
2. Given the 11 sentances carried out in since 1977, the 640 in line will die of natural causes before they're killed. In the meantime the cost to the taxpayers for appeals, etc will run into the 100's of millions, if not billions. If we are cutting back on after-school rec. programs for kids to keep them away from gangs, why not justr save the money, house the perps until nature takes its course? Much cheaper for everyone around.
3. Why are we trusting the government to kill people? You've experienced the DMV and IRS -- look, they can't even find WMD -- you trust them with not making a mistake killing an innocent person?
4. With all the bible-thumpers wringing their hands about the 10 commandments missing for our lives, what part of "thou shalt not kill" doesn't apply to the government?
Posted by: Citizen Kane at December 18, 2004 03:31 AM
I am searching for an inmate who was convicted on a murder charge about 20 years ago.
His name is Danny (Daniel) Withey.
He is between 47 and 55 years old.
He is my cousin.
Please help me find him if you can.
I need information so that I can write to him.
Thanks so much.
I don't even know if he's on Death Row or not!
I can't find a list of names.
Posted by: DorjeKhandro at January 19, 2005 03:36 PM
