San Quentin Inmate One Step Further Down Death Row

I don't get why public funding of such executions is not as violently opposed by sanctity-of-life people as public funding of abortion. Nor why opponents of death penalty don't get the same respect in the media as opponents of abortion. It's even more amazing that in times of budget crisis, when the cost analysis is clear and commuting death sentences into life sentences would save $$$, it's still a political non-starter.

After a quarter century, all we know for sure is Kevin Cooper walked away from a low-security prison a short time before a heinous murder was committed. Evidence of witness tampering, evidence tampering, and this may have been an inside hit ordered by the Arien Brotherhood, make the dissenting Judge Fletcher, a conservative in most decisions start his incredible unraveling of the evidence with "California may be about to kill and innocent man." This is not someone else's problem, this our problem. Executions are done in the name of the "People of the State of California." Reading the 100+ page dissent from the 9th Circuit makes the best of John Grisham look mediocre. How can one possibly justify the death penalty when after 25 years, this is the best we can do? Please consider reading the opinion, don't just take my word, then get involved in opposing executions in California, and start supporting spending those dollars on preventing crime before it happens.

We spend $250,000 per juvenile in CYA p/year, and $50,000 per mainline prisoner. Does it take a rocket scientist to know that those dollars invested in kids and schools would be better invested up front? Look at the correlation between high school graduation rates and homicides, and for a lot fewer dollars invested in keeping kids in school we could put a serious stop to crime, and really support ending future victims.

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/05/11/05-99004o.pdf