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DAs, police,
family of slain push for death penalty reform
Posted: Oct 31, 2015 3:46 AM Updated:
Oct 31, 2015 4:11 AM
By BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - California
prosecutors, police officers and family members of murder victims have launched
a campaign to speed up executions for murderers sentenced to death.
Members of the group said Friday that
the death penalty reform initiative is aimed at the inefficient process that
has left hundreds of killers languishing on death row for decades.
San Bernardino County District
Attorney Mike Ramos says voters who rejected a ballot measure to eliminate the
death penalty in 2012 showed they support the punishment.
Ramos says appointing appeals lawyers
to the process and other proposed reforms could shorten the time from
conviction to execution from as long as 30 years to 10 to 15 years. The
initiative is likely to duel with another proposed ballot measure that seeks to
abolish capital punishment.
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DAs, Police,
Family of Slain Push for Death Penalty Changes
By brian melley, associated
press
California
prosecutors, police officers and family members of the slain launched a
campaign Friday to speed up executions for murderers sentenced to death.
Sacramento district attorney Anne
Marie Schubert said the effort follows through on a promise that law
enforcement made when fighting a 2012 ballot initiative that aimed to abolish
the death penalty. Rather than get rid of the ultimate punishment, they vowed
to fix it.
Schubert said the penalty is reserved
for the "worst of the worst:" mass killers, serial killers, cop
killers and those who rape and murder children.
The proposed initiative would change
the lengthy appeals process by expanding the pool of appellate attorneys and
appointing lawyers to the cases at time of sentencing. Currently there's about
a five year wait to be assigned a lawyer.
More than 900 killers have been
sentenced to death since 1978, but only 13 have been executed.
The state hasn't carried out an
execution since 2006 when a federal judge ordered an overhaul of the state's
procedures for lethal injection.
A federal appeals court is now
considering whether the state's death penalty amounts to cruel and unusual
punishment because of excessive delays that often don't end with an execution.
"I think a lot people
probably want to do away with the death penalty because no one's getting executed
in California,"
said Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey, citing the huge expense and
long delays. "But it's not because they looked at
these gruesome facts that people tortured people, raped children and said, 'No,
I think life without the possibility of parole is OK. They just think it's
never going to happen with the current system."
The effort comes nearly two years
after a group of former governors joined law enforcement officers to push a
nearly identical campaign. That effort was shelved when they realized the cost
of gathering signatures to get an initiative on the ballot, said San Bernardino
County District Attorney Mike Ramos.
They have regrouped and changed
strategy, but the measure is pretty much the same, Ramos said. No former governors
were in attendance at a news conference announcing the campaign.
Ramos says the proposals could shorten
the time from conviction to execution from as long as 30 years now to 10 to 15
years in the future.
The initiative is likely to duel with
another proposed ballot measure that once again seeks to abolish capital punishment.
The supporter of that effort,
anti-death penalty activist Mike
Farrell, who starred in the TV hit MASH, said speeding up the appeals
process could violate inmates' constitutional rights if the courts rubber stamp
their convictions.
"I fear that these
people are playing to the hope that this is going to shorten the process, make
it more meaningful and that people will actually be executed," Farrell said. "I think it couldn't be further from the
truth."
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SOURCE: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/10/30/family-of-murder-victims-seek-death-penalty-reforms-in-california/
Families Of Murder Victims Seek Death Penalty Reforms In California
October 30, 2015 5:39 PM
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Advocates
for death penalty reform are trying to get sweeping changes made in the way
California’s justice system.
On Friday, a large group of power
players — among them people who have lost loved ones to murder — made their
case to the media.
The group, in turn, wants the voters
to make the final call on their reform ideas at the ballot box.
KCAL9’s Dave Lopez attended the
gathering.
Kermit Alexander, onetime NFL player,
was among those who spoke. A gang member killed his mother and three other
relatives.
“He put three shots into my mother’s
head,” said Alexander choking back tears. The gang member — namely Tiequon
Aundray Cox — was sentenced to death in 1865, and is still on death row.
“And her last words were ‘Please don’t
hurt my mother and sister,'” said Marc Klaas, speaking about his daughter
Polly.
Her murderer was sentenced to death 22
years ago.
“That isn’t justice for my daughter,”
Klaas said.
The murder victim’s families were
surrounded by DA’s and law enforcement officials who all said the system needs
fixing.
The group said they had a budget of $2
million — money already raised to help in an awareness campaign.
They said they hoped to gather 350,000
signatures on petitions to get their reform measures on the November 2016
ballot.
Among the reforms:
• Reduced waiting time. It can take up to five years to get an attorney.
• The average time on death row is 17 years. Advocates want to get that down to 8-10 years.
• They also want to eliminate death row and single cells for inmates and put convicts among the general prison population.
The reform advocates said today that
when they first introduced these reforms in 2014, they made a mistake — they
lacked funding for an awareness campaign. And now they have it.
Seventeen of the current 750 inmates
on death row have been there for more than 30 years, Lopez reported.
Death
Penalty Initiative Press Conference
Published
on Nov 2, 2015
California
prosecutors, police officers and family members of murder victims launched a
campaign October 30, 2015, to speed up executions for murderers sentenced to
death.
Music by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech)
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