California Commission on Fair Administration finds California’s Death Penalty System Full of Flaws
All 22 members of the Commission agree that our capital punishment system is dysfunctional.
Annual Weekend of Faith in Action on Death Penalty is November 7-9, 2008
California People of Faith’s “Weekend of Faith in Action Against the Death Penalty” is the perfect time to TAKE ACTION against the death penalty.
California's death penalty process is 'dysfunctional,' panel finds
California's administration of the death penalty is "close to collapse" and would require massive new state spending or changes in sentencing laws to end decades of delay and dysfunction, a state commission reported Monday. Read full article in Los Angeles Times.
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We're Calling on County Officials to Work to End executions The death penalty costs the county and state much more than the alternative of life imprisonment without possibility of parole. It does not make us safer and it is a procedure that we can no
longer afford.
Vigil Held During Religious Ed Conference CPF organized the 11th annual Public Witness to End the Death Penalty on Saturday, March 1st in Anaheim, CA.
Lieber Renews Call to Halt Construction of New Death Chamber
Federal and State court rulings create a moratorium on use of lethal injection procedure.
Faith Community Prayers for an End to the Death Penalty, Oct. 18 in Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose. The service, which focused on Cherishing Life, was led by Friar Bill Minkel. photo by Charo Vital
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"The Death Penalty: What People of Faith Should Know" is available from CPF
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