(CA) Assembly panel OKs hold on executions

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Assembly panel OKs hold on executions

January 11, 2006

LOS ANGELES – A state Assembly committee yesterday approved a bill that would impose a two-year moratorium on death sentences in California, allowing time for a state commission on executions to complete its review of the system.

The proposal from Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, comes after the execution last month of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips street gang. The execution prompted protests by supporters who said Williams had redeemed himself with a record of speaking out against gang violence during his more than two decades in state prison.

Another death row inmate, Clarence Ray Allen, is scheduled to be executed early Tuesday.

The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, created last year by the state Senate, is studying the state's death penalty system to determine whether any inmates have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes. About 650 inmates are on California's death row, the largest in the nation.

Associated Press

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[Wilms]

1. Given all the Tookie attention this thread seems lonely.

:shrug:

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2. LOL. Over shadowed by Alito? (nt)

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5. probably true. but also by SEVEN imminent executions in the next three

weeks, and little hope of the governors in question having any decency...
though it had been 8, one having been stayed for now.

more on those tomorrow.

posting this late slows replies too.
thank you, though. that is extremely important news! please keep us up on that!


peace!

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4. not nearly as lonely as those trying to get you all to ACT to abolish

the death penalty.

where are you on those threads, Wilms?

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3. thank you for posting this, question everything. eom

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7. Yes, I am surprised that it did not generate more interest

perhaps, as you say, more today

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8. i know people don't trust it till it gets past the gropenator, and

he and many other repugs say they won't let it happen.

it is extremely important and urgent!


peace and solidarity

[Hapameli]

6. Yay California!

What California does, the rest of the country follows. This is good news!

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9. it is good news. hope Cali folk press their legislature on this! eom