Deputy District Attorneys walking: campaign cash for death penalty, GOP's Danon, and Amador

PROP. 34: The Truth Will Kill It Dudley Sharp An honest discussion about Prop 34 would result in its overwhelming defeat. COSTS Are the cost claims made by the pro Prop 34 folks reliable (1)? No. The ACLU cost review was easily destroyed (1) and Mitchell and Alarcon, of the $4 billion study infamy, refuse to share their database (1), which we can presume has problems and, therefore, no one can, responsibly, depend upon that review. Is it possibly that life without parole (LWOP) may cost more than the death penalty? Yes (1). Is it required that California citizens allow their representatives to be so irresponsible with both their state budget and death penalty management? Of course not. Virginia has executed 75% of those sentenced to death and has done so within 7.1 years, on average. All states, inclusive of California, could implement similar protocols and save money over LWOP. INNOCENTS MORE PROTECTED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY Is it true that innocents are better protected by a death penalty protocol? Yes, in three different ways (2). Innocents are more at risk without the death penalty (2). PROP. 34: UNPRINCIPLED? APPARENTLY. Ask the media (or insert any industry) this question. How principled are you? If you had a group of corrupt people, who only wanted to shut down the media, by sabotaging the media, would you say, OK, shut down all media? Or would you say, let's clean it up, get you bad folks out of the picture, and make it work? A vote for Prop 34 is a vote for folks who have intentionally obstructed justice in these cases, meaning anti death penalty legislators, the defense bar and judges who have made the death penalty so irresponsible and who are the same folks telling us to reward them by giving them what they have been working for, based upon the horrible system they have engineered. A better idea. How about demanding a responsible system, such as Virginia's, whereby 75% of those sentenced to death have been executed within 7.1 years, on average - a system similar to what Ca should have, if responsible folks were in charge. Calif has executed 1.4% of those sentenced because such mismanagement is what such obstructionists (read Prop 34) had in mind. 95% OF MURDER VICTIMS' LOVED ONES SUPPORT DEATH PENALTY: ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE (3) In addition, 80% of US folks support the death penalty for, truly, "death penalty eligible" murders (3), just as from 56% to 83% have also supported the death penalty when, wrongly, asked about their approval for the death penalty for murders, for which about 90% are not death penalty eligible (3). contd
— November 5, 2012 10:05 a.m.

Four San Diego lawyers give $40,000 to anti-death penalty measure

contd But, it gets even worse for Clark/CCFAJ. Clark/CCFAJ will admit, if prodded (5) that "the figure of $137 million estimates the entire cost of the death penalty system, not simply housing, but also inclusive of all post-conviction costs, including legal appeals." In other words, Clark/CCFAJ is admitting escalating the death penalty costs over the alleged cost comparisons of incarceration between lifers and death row. Not at all surprising Clark/CCFAJ excludes such from the lifer costs. The Clark/CCFAJ's cost comparisons/evaluations are a very bad joke. Instead of making an honest apples to apples cost comparison, Clark/CCFAJ brings us an apples to Rolls Royce cost comparison, as if it is apples to apples. Because so many of these cost comparisons are so pathetically unreliable, California considered that an objective assessment by RAND should be considered (6). The basis for a proper evaluation was presented, but Ca rejected doing the study, because . . . it was too expensive! CONCLUSION - Save even more money? There is no need for California to have a death row. Current death row prisoners can be placed in Level IV security cells, or lower levels depending upon evaluations, just as Missouri and Kansas do. California can make their death sentenced inmates cheaper than their lifers, if they properly manage their citizens money, as Virginia does. California must only have the will to be responsible stewards of their citizens resources - something that seems to elude California lawmakers, just as basic, accurate evaluations evade Clark/CCFAJ. (Later update: Virginia executes, on average, within 7.1 years and has executed 75% of those so sentenced, a protocol that would, on average, be less expensive than comparable LWOP cases). Today, there is no reason for Ca death row to cost more than level IV security and a proper evaluation would likely show death row cheaper or no more expensive than Level IV. There would be no cost savings in getting rid of death row, with the exception that, if Calif had a responsible death penalty protocol, there would be many more executed murderers, thus reducing incarceration costs on death row, saving money on incarcerations costs over other level IV prisoners. (1) An article by James Clark, field organizer, ACLU of Southern California. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-clark/cut-thi… (2) pg 77, fiscal year 2007-2008, http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2009-107.1.pdf (3) http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/97125.pdf (4) page 80, fiscal year 2007-2008, http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2009-107.1.pdf (5) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-clark/cut-thi… (6) "Investigating the Costs of the Death Penalty in California: Insights for Future Data Collection in California, RAND Corp., 2/2008 http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2008/RAND_CT…
— August 29, 2012 7:03 a.m.

Four San Diego lawyers give $40,000 to anti-death penalty measure

Response to Absurd California Death Penalty Cost 'Study": A Rebuttal to "Cut This: The Death Penalty"(1) Death Penalty vs Life Costs in California By Dudley Sharp. contact info below NOTE: Clark is a Calif. ACLU activist and The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice's (CCFAJ) is a Calif. government commission. Clark's/CCFAJ's cost review is wildly inaccurate and misleading. I doubt that there is any more veracity to the death row costs than with their lifer cost evaluations. None of Clark/CCFAJ's numbers can be relied upon. Clark/CCFAJ says: "In total, California's death penalty system costs taxpayers $137 million per year. Contrast that with just $11 million per year if we replace the death penalty with permanent imprisonment." For 700 inmates, that is: death penalty costs: $137 million per year or $196,000//inmate/yr. life imprisonment costs: $11 million/year or $15,700/inmate/yr. It is complete, utter nonsense. Some reality: The last full California audit (Sept 2009) found the average costs, 2007-2008, per adult inmate was $49,000/inmate/yr. (2) In 1997, it was $25,000/inmate/yr. (3). This $49,000/inmate/yr is the average for all inmates, not the level IV security of death row inmate like criminals that will cost more, if not much more. Clark/CCFAJ is stating that these enhanced security prisoners will cost $34,000/inmate/yr LESS than the average cost for all Ca inmates. Clark's'SSFAJ's lack of credibility is of an astounding level. Clark's analysis is laughable. But, Clark/CCFAJ get even worse. Without the death penalty, Clark/CCFAJ's select group of former death row murderers would likely be in level IV security and, as lifers, would die as geriatric prisoners or from earlier illness, likely costing on average $80,000-$100,000/inmate/yr., or more, with a rare few costing a $1 million or more per year with illness and/or geriatric stages. Geriatric problems often begins at age 50 for inmates. NOTE: The California Medical Facility for corrections averages $83,000/inmate/yr. (4). There, likely, would be additional costs when dealing with Level IV security prisoners. But, for Clark/CCFAJ, former death row inmates, now lifers, cost $15,700/inmate/yr. contd
— August 29, 2012 7:03 a.m.

Four San Diego lawyers give $40,000 to anti-death penalty measure

US Death Penalty Support at 80%; World Support Remains High http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/04/us-death-pe… "Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/02/01/murder-an… "The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death… "The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death… "Moral/ethical Death Penalty Support: Christian and secular Scholars" http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penal…
— August 29, 2012 7 a.m.

Four San Diego lawyers give $40,000 to anti-death penalty measure

THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES Of all endeavors that put innocents at risk, is there one with a better record of sparing innocent lives than the US death penalty? Unlikely. 1) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-penal… 2) Innocents More At Risk Without Death Penalty http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/innocents-m…
— August 29, 2012 6:58 a.m.

No on Dead Men Walking: Ex-Con Millionaire Staging Celebrity Bash Against Capital Punishment

contd 5) Billy Graham: "God will not tolerate sin. He condemns it and demands payment for it. God could not remain a righteous God and compromise with sin. His holiness and His justice demand the death penalty." ( "The Power of the Cross," published in the Apr. 2007 issue of Decision magazine ). 6) Theodore Roosevelt: "It was really heartrending to have to see the kinfolk and friends of murderers who were condemned to death, and among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a criminal so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment.". 7) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Again, every rogue who criminously attacks social rights becomes, by his wrong, a rebel and a traitor to his fatherland. By contravening its laws, he ceases to be one of its citizens: he even wages war against it. In such circumstances, the State and he cannot both be saved: one or the other must perish. In killing the criminal, we destroy not so much a citizen as an enemy. The trial and judgments are proofs that he has broken the Social Contract, and so is no longer a member of the State." (The Social Contract). 8) John Locke: "A criminal who, having renounced reason... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tyger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security." And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Second Treatise of Civil Government. ==== "Moral/ethical Death Penalty Support: Christian and secular Scholars" http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penal… "The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death… "The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death… "Killing Equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents" http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/02/01/murder-an… ==== 1) US Death Penalty Support at 80%; World Support Remains High http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/04/us-death-pe… Much more, upon request. [email protected]
— June 29, 2012 7:49 a.m.

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The Death Penalty: Justice & Saving More Innocents Dudley Sharp The death penalty has a foundation in justice and it spares more innocent lives. Anti death penalty arguments are either false or the pro death penalty arguments are stronger. The majority populations of all countries may support the death penalty for some crimes (1). Why? Justice. THE DEATH PENALTY: SAVING MORE INNOCENT LIVES Of all endeavors that put innocents at risk, is there one with a better record of sparing innocent lives than the US death penalty? Unlikely. 1) The Death Penalty: Saving More Innocent Lives http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-penal… 2) Innocents More At Risk Without Death Penalty http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2012/03/innocents-m… MORAL FOUNDATIONS: DEATH PENALTY PT. 1 1) Saint (& Pope) Pius V: "The just use of (executions), far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this (Fifth) Commandment which prohibits murder." "The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent" (1566). 2) Pope Pius XII; "When it is a question of the execution of a man condemned to death it is then reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life, in expiation of his fault, when already, by his fault, he has dispossessed himself of the right to live." 9/14/52. 3) John Murray: "Nothing shows the moral bankruptcy of a people or of a generation more than disregard for the sanctity of human life." "... it is this same atrophy of moral fiber that appears in the plea for the abolition of the death penalty." "It is the sanctity of life that validates the death penalty for the crime of murder. It is the sense of this sanctity that constrains the demand for the infliction of this penalty. The deeper our regard for life the firmer will be our hold upon the penal sanction which the violation of that sanctity merit." (Page 122 of Principles of Conduct). 4) Immanuel Kant: "If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.". "A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral." contd
— June 29, 2012 7:49 a.m.