s of Crime, which reported, "The
victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a
system designed to protect them."
In this post, Murdered victims’ families campaigned to keep the death penalty as those leftist Californian activists planned to abolish the death penalty. Those leftist Californian activists are also pro-choice (they support abortion and have more blood on their hands). The Californian Governor is also pro-abortion and he once admitted that nobody on Californian Death Row is innocent. Please remember to show support for murdered victims and their families and also the innocent unborn. Thanks.
Christian Guiterrez of Fairfield, California looks down at a photograph of his brother Jesus Amaya, at the 23rd Annual Victims March at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. Amaya was killed in February of 2012. California Gov. Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and legislators in Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of California and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
Violent Crime Victims’ Families Rally At Capitol
April 24, 2012 7:23 PM
SACRAMENTO
(CBS13) – There were hundreds of photos displayed for all to see and emotional
outcries from murder victims’ families gathering from across the state at the
Capitol on Tuesday to speak up for those they’ve lost.
Supporters
of the 23rd annual Victims March stood side by side, many fighting to uphold
the death penalty a day after it was announced that California voters will
decide its fate in the November election.
Tuesday
march was part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
“What’s
wrong with the death penalty is not the budget, it’s not the cost,” said
Harriet Salarno, founder of Crime Victims United of California. “That’s all
they’re going to do and hammer that. It’s because we’re not implementing it.”
“To
me death row is a way to make sure we stop the crime,” said Lupe Diaz, whose
brother Tony Diaz, a Yolo County sheriff’s deputy, was shot to death in 2008 by
Marco Topete, who was sentenced to death earlier this year.
Sandy
Friend’s son Michael Lyons was murdered in Yuba City back in 1996, and 16 years
later her son’s killer is still on death row.
“I
really wish there was a better system when it comes to the length of time they
stay on death row,” she said.
But
others have a different message to get across.
“the
amount of money that’s being spent on death penalty is staggering,” Deldelp
Medina said.
She
was one of a group of loved ones of murder victims fighting for alternatives to
the death penalty.
“We
hope that life without parole would be the best thing for us,” she said.
But
so many others Tuesday disagreed with that alternative.
“Look
at these people here. Look at the suffering they’ve gone through. Why are you
going to do this to them?” Salarno asked.
For
his part, Gov. Brown, who attended Tuesday’s rally, didn’t say which way he’d
vote in November but did say he was glad to see the issue going before all
California voters.
“Just
like I think it’s a good thing that people get a chance to vote on taxes,”
Brown told the Sacramento Bee. “Death and taxes are things we can’t avoid, so
it’s good that people get to weigh in occasionally.”
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/04/24/murder-victims-families-rally-at-capitol/
Joy Cepeda who was 22 years old when she died in 2007 under suspicious circumstances. California Gov. Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and legislators in Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of California and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
Joy Cepeda who was 22 years old when she died in 2007 under suspicious circumstances. California Gov. Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and legislators in Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of California and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
Crime victims assail death penalty repeal initiative
jortiz@sacbee.com
Published Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012
The
newly minted ballot measure to repeal the death penalty came under attack at
the Capitol on Tuesday, as law enforcement and crime victims groups assailed
the initiative as an assault on the public.
Gov.
Jerry Brown, who opposes capital punishment but has enforced it while in office,
said he is happy that the repeal will be on the ballot in November.
"Just
like I think it's a good thing that people get a chance to vote on taxes,"
Brown said earlier Tuesday in San Jose. "Death and taxes are things we
can't avoid, so it's good that people get to weigh in occasionally."
A
few hours later, speakers at a Crime Victims United rally on the Capitol's west
steps took turns blasting the initiative.
"Don't
let people tell you life without parole is just as good as the death
penalty," said Nina Salarno Ashford, who sits on the board of the
nonprofit victims advocacy group.
Assemblyman
Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, declared, "This initiative spits in the eye of
justice. We must defeat it."
It
was red meat for the rally, which assembles every year to remember murdered
friends and family and press for victims' rights.
The
group had invited Brown to speak, even though he vetoed a bill to restore
California's death penalty during his inaugural term in 1977. The Legislature
overrode the veto.
As
attorney general, Brown backed capital punishment cases. During his 2010
campaign, he promised to uphold the law.
That
won't change, he promised the victims’ rights group.
"I
will carry out the law," he said, "without fear or failure and with
fidelity to the will of the people."
Crime
Victims United, backed by the California Correctional Peace Officers
Association, also opposes a program Brown launched in October that is shrinking
the state's prison population by sentencing more convicts to local jails. The
group contends the policy merely shifts overcrowding and costs from the state
to local governments, which are more likely to release prisoners early – and
put the public at risk.
Brown
wants to put a tax measure on the November ballot that would guarantee money for
local jails.
The
governor didn't take on the critics directly. Instead, he called for the
hundreds assembled at the event to take a wider view. Administrations come and
go, Brown said, leaving thousands of laws intended to curb crime on the books.
Still, violent crime remains.
"It
is not our lot to totally overcome evil," the governor said in one of
several biblically flavored references in his five-minute speech, "but to
not be overcome by it."
Javier Gonzales holds images of his step daughter Joy Cepeda who was 22 years old when she died in 2007. California Gov. Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and legislators in Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of California and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
Crime Victims Seek Justice For Loved Ones
Survivors Support Death Penalty
Mike
Luery/KCRA
POSTED: 3:26
pm PDT April 24, 2012
UPDATED: 7:51
pm PDT April 24, 2012
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. (KCRA) -- Scores
of California crime victims flocked to the Capitol on Tuesday, seeking answers
and justice for their loved ones. One local mom is still seeking the ultimate
penalty for her son's killer -- after nearly 16 years.
Sandy Friend
lost her 8-year-old son Michael Lyons in 1996. The Yuba City child was abducted
by a serial killer after walking home from school.
"He
kidnapped Michael and kept him for 10 hours," Sandy Friend told KCRA 3.
"He tortured him for 10 hours and he murdered him ultimately the next
morning."
The convicted
killer, Robert Rhoades, is now on California's death row, where Friend is
hoping he will pay the ultimate price.
"If he
isn't the poster child for the death penalty, I don't know who would be,"
Friend told KCRA 3. "I mean, he is the evilest of the evil. He is the
worst of the worst."
Tuesday's
rally was highlighted by the presence of Gov. Jerry Brown, who acknowledged the
pain that so many families have suffered.
"Evil
has affected you in so many profound ways, but justice is also affecting
you," Brown told the crowd.
"I'm
standing with you for victims' rights."
Brown did not
tip his hand on a controversial ballot measure to repeal the death penalty,
vowing only to uphold the will of the voters.
"But I
will tell you this and this is my pledge," said Brown. "Whatever the
voters decide you can be sure I will carry out the law, without fear or favor
and with fidelity to the will of the people."
California
voters approved the death penalty initiative in 1978. The author is Don Heller,
a former prosecutor. But since that time, Heller said costs have skyrocketed
and he told KCRA 3 he has subsequently changed his mind.
"We're
spending $185 million a year on death penalty cases," Heller said.
"I'm for the abolition."
The death
penalty has cost California taxpayers $4 billion since 1978, or $308 million
for each of the 13 executions in that time span, according to a recent study
authored by Judge Arthur Alarcon, a senior judge with the U.S. Court of Appeal
for the Ninth Circuit. The study found that California's more than 700
prisoners have waited 20 years or more on average for their cases to be
concluded.
But death
penalty supporters disagree with the costs discovered in the study. They insist
that abolishing the death penalty will be even more costly.
"You
know they want life without the possibility of parole," said Harriet
Salarno, president of Crime Victims United. "Did they ever stop to think
how much that's going to cost? With the health care they get in prison, they'll
live to be 100 years old."
California
voters will decide the fate of the death penalty this November.
Tracy
Wild (center) of
Chico carries the image of Salvador Hernandez, son of Debbie Hernandez (left)
of San Diego, California who was killed on February 16, 2008 at the 23rd Annual
Victims March at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California.
California Gov. Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and
legislators in Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of
California and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part
of National Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
Flowers
were taped next to photographs of loved ones at the 23rd Annual Victims March
at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. California Gov.
Jerry Brown joined advocates, law enforcement officials and legislators in
Sacramento at a rally co-sponsored by Crime Victims United of California and
the California Correctional Peace Officers Association as part of National
Crime Victims' Rights Week in Sacramento, California.
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