"Breaking Bad: Death Penalty Desperation," is Jeanne Woodford's latest at Huffington Post. She's executive director of Death Penalty Focus, and a former warden at San Quentin State Prison.
What do the gas chamber, state secrets and illegally manufactured drugs all have in common?
They are all in Senator Joel Anderson's preposterous new bill, SB 779, sponsored by the California District Attorneys' Association.
The measure is likely to fail but it's the clearest evidence yet that California's death penalty is broken beyond repair -- and that the only sane choice is to replace it with life in prison without possibility of parole.
SB 779 is 35 pages long and proposes changes to 27 different code sections. It's a massive, delusional overhaul of nearly every aspect of California's wrecked and expensive death penalty system--from small things like how a transcript is reviewed, to big things like whether the Supreme Court can review a case at all.
But the most deranged proposal made by the California District Attorneys' Association in SB 779 is that we bring back gas chamber executions to California.
Earlier coverage of the California legislation begins at the link.
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