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GUEST: Darryl Stallworth, former Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County, currently law enforcement outreach coordinator with Death Penalty Focus

Dozens of current and former officials in law enforcement signed a letter recently stating that “California’s death penalty is broken.” The signers to the letter include prosecutors, police officers and corrections officials. Additionally, 17 current and former judges also signed a letter expressing their concerns about the way in which California’s death penalty is applied and administered. The letters were presented to the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice which has held three hearings across the state on the problems of California’s death penalty. Meanwhile, two new reports by the ACLU of Northern California bring up further questions about the state’s death penalty. The report, the Hidden Death Tax shows how the death penalty is costing California tax payers well over a $100 million each year, and was also presented at a hearing of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. The ACLU’s other report, “Death by Geography,” reveals that only a handful of counties in the state aggressively apply the death penalty, while most of the rest are opting for life imprisonment.

Download the letter from current and former law enforcements officials here: http://death.live.radicaldesigns.org/downloads/Law
%20Enforcement%20Signatory%20Letter%20with
%20current%20signers.pdf

Download the letter from current and former judges here:
http://death.live.radicaldesigns.org/downloads/Jud
ges%20letter-Final%20with%20current%20signers.pdf

For more information, visit www.deathpenalty.org.