He's been my least favorite governor on the Dem side for awhile now...this just cements that sediment...
I don't get people who feel strongly for keeping the death penalty. I mean it's one thing to say "okay, we should leave this option open", but another thing entirely to be all "let's kill people, yeah!"
You'd be surprised by the number of people who A) think it's a strong deterrent, B) don't realize how expensive it is, and C) believe that the criminal justice system is less prone to mistakes and much fairer than it actually is. People who embrace A in particular can be quite fervent in their support for state-sanctioned executions.
The irony is that because of how expensive it is, we could lock up more dangerous criminals with the same amount of money (in addition to those currently executed) if we did abolish abolish the death penalty. Many of those on death row opposed Prop. 34 because it would have spent less on lawyers for them.
