Oct. 25, 2012 By Dave Roberts On May 1, 1992, Eric Houston, 20, strode into Lindhurst High School in Yuba County with a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle. He shot and killed a teacher and three students, wounded 10 others and held 80 students hostage before surrendering after police pr...
Posts Tagged ‘death penalty’Prop. 34 latest attempt to abolish Calif. death penaltyThursday, October 25th, 2012How To Kill Death-Row CostsTuesday, January 31st, 2012John Seiler: I have a lot of problems with the death penalty. It is just to kill the worst criminals, who have removed themselves from civil society because of their murders and other high crimes. But I don't trust the current California or U.S. governments to execute the right people. These gove... Will Breivik Keep CA Death Penalty Alive?Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 JULY 27, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik poses a challenge to the proposed ballot initiative to end the California death penalty, regardless of the cost of executions. The initiative didn’t emerge on moral grounds from liberal religious or civil rig... Death Row AttritionMonday, July 11th, 2011 Voters Might Get to Kill Death PenaltySaturday, July 9th, 2011 Editor's Note: Some corrections to this article were added after comments from Natasha Minsker, Death Penalty Policy Director of the ACLU of Northern California. JULY 9, 2011 By ALI MEYER If SB 490 becomes law, voters could have a chance to kill the death penalty. In the key sectio... How to Save $$ Executing KillersWednesday, June 22nd, 2011 JUNE 22, 2011 State Sen. Lori Hancock, D-Berkeley, said this week that she plans to introduce legislation that would shutter California’s death row. She argues that capital punishment has proven “an expensive failure” and proposes that the sentences of inmates currently facing a date with t... |