News Coverage

"I now understand that the death penalty is a cruel and simplistic response to complex problem of violent crime. Our limited resources could be better spent on programs that focus on stopping violence before it starts." 
        --Darryl Stallworth, Former Alameda County Deputy District Attorney.

News and Editorials

Replace Death Penalty with Permanent Imprisonment. Op Ed by John Streeter, Bill Hing and Diane Bellas, members of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, San Francisco Chronicle (6/25/2009)

California Can't Afford the Death Penalty. Op Ed by Jon Van de Kamp. LA Times (6/10/09)

Death Penalty Trials Just Waste Money. Op Ed by Judy Kerr, Spokesperson for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Press Enterprise (6/3/09)

Death Penalty Too Costly. Stockton Record Editorial (5/7/2009)

Crime Victims Week - Death Penalty Alternatives. Opinion piece by Judy Kerr, Spokesperson for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. California Progress Report (4/27/2009)

A Month of Killing, More on the Way? Opinion Piece by Norm Stamper, 29 Year Veteran of the San Diego Police Department. Huffington Post (4/14/2009)

New Mexico Leads the Way Against the Death Penalty, California Should Follow. California Progress Report (3/23/2009)

Pena Capital es un despilfarro. La Opinion (3/18/2009)

We all Pay the Price for the Death Penalty. Op Ed by California State Senator Mark Leno, Marin Independent Journal (1/13/2009)

Newark Police Chief Ray Samuels: Holding on to the Death Penalty is a Serious Mistake. Oakland Tribune (12/23/2008)

Executions and Death Sentences in United States Dropped in 2008, Report Finds. Solomon Moore, New York Times (12/10/2008)

UN Vote Shows Growing Support for Death Penalty Ban. Associated Press (11/20/2008)

Can California Really Afford the Death Penalty? Daniel Borenstein, Contra Costa Times (11/17/2008)

Death Row Realism: Do Executions Make Us Safer? San Quentin's Former Warden Says No. Jeanne Woodford, Los Angeles Times (10/2/2008)

Report: State Should Abolish Death Penalty or Make Drastic Changes.  Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News (6/30/2008)

 Panel Condemns State's Death Penalty System.  Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle (6/30/2008)

California's Death Penalty Process is Dysfunctional, Panel Finds.  Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times (6/30/2008)

Click Here for more coverage of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice's Report on CA's Broken Death Penalty.

Death Penalty Perpetuates Vicious Cycle of Violence.  Op Ed by Darryl Stalworth, Former Alameda County District Attorney, San Jose Mercury News (7/6/2008)

Death Penalty Expensive, Immoral.  Op Ed by Chris Mears, Former Irvine City Council Member, Orange County Register (7/6/2008)

Death Penalty and Race: Scales of Justice Weigh Heavily Against Blacks.  Op Ed by Claire Cooper, Sacramento Bee (7/7/2008)

Why I Oppose the Death Penalty. Op Ed by Delane Sims, ACLU-NC Death Penalty Outreach Coordinator, California Progress Report (6/20/2008)

Lessons from Two Years Without the Death Penalty.  Op Ed by CCV Spokesperson Judy Kerr, California Progress Report (2/21/2008)

Death Penalty System Loaded with Racial Bias.  Op Ed by Senator Gloria Romero.  LA Daily News (2/27/2008)

Injustice Came Back for Carmona. Advocate for people wrongfully convicted, as he was, is killed leaving a party. Op Ed by Natasha Minsker, Orange County Register (2/3/08)

California's Death Penalty Needs Reform, if not a Ban.  San Jose Mercury News Editorial (1/10/08)

Exonerations in DNA Bring Changes in Legal System.  New York Times (10/1/07)

Revenge Begins to Seem Less Sweet. Americans are losing their appetite for the death penalty. Texans are the exception.  The Economist (8/30/07)

Killing Machine. The Los Angeles Times critiques the capital punishment system (7/14/07)

Multimedia

Videos

Who Pays for California's Death Penalty? We all do. (10/16/2008)

First Ever Report on California’s Flawed Death Penalty Released (6/30/2008)

Victim to Panel: No to Death Penalty, No To Revenge (2/28/2008)

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Podcasts

1st Person: Kill the Death Penalty, Commentary by Alameda County Activist Delane Sims on KALW.

Condemned Murderer, Dearest Friend Alameda County Activist Karen Ball on KQED's 'Perspectives.'

Shared Values Podcast about why members of both faith and secular communities oppose the death penalty.

Find the Killers, Don't Execute Them. CCV Spokesperson Judy Kerr on KQED's 'Perspectives.'

Death Sentence. Former Alameda County Prosecutor Darryl Stallworth on KQED's 'Perspectives.'

Hector Black, Murder Victim Survivor, NPR's Storycorps

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