Death Penalty News

The former vice president has been renouncing much of his past, leaving little of his record to run on. Every presidential candidate runs on some combination of two things: what they’ve already done, and what they plan to do next. More experienced candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders can lean on both equally, while relative newcomers like Beto O’Rourke or Pete Buttigieg tend to focus on the latter. The calculus for Joe Biden is a little different. The former vice president entered American politics more than four decades ago, and his experience comes at a cost. Since announcing his presidential bid last week, he’s spent most of his time trying to explain, rationalize, or express regret over key moments in his career. So far, he’s avoided rolling out any new policies or initiatives. That raises an obvious question for voters: What exactly is he running on? No part of Biden’s record has received more scrutiny than the decades he spent championing tough-on-cr...

Republicans will push to reinstate the death penalty when state lawmakers convene next week, setting up another clash over capital punishment nearly a decade after it was abolished in New Mexico. State Rep. Monica Youngblood, a Republican from Albuquerque, said Sunday she will file legislation allowing the death penalty for murders involving children, police or correctional officers. And Democratic legislators expect Gov. Susana Martinez will back the measure as well as several other sentencing bills, including a proposal to toughen the state’s “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” law — the likes of which have been controversial with criminal justice reform advocates around the country. Entering the last regular session of the prosecutor-turned-governor’s two-term administration, the push for tough-on-crime legislation might come to define the 30-day meeting at the Roundhouse and at the very least set up a showdown over a visceral issue ahead of an election later this year. ...

Stewart Alexander says "The Democrat front-runner Jerry Brown and Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner support the death penalty and the Three Strikes law. The truth is, these 3 candidates for governor are aware that capital punishment is robbing the public of billions of dollars to subsidize a broken down criminal justice system." ( Left: Exterior of the new San Quentin Death Chamber. ) Candidate Alexander wants to eliminate death penalty and Three Strikes law There is a side of capital punishment that most Californians remain completely oblivious to; it is the tremendous cost to taxpayers. PFP Governor Candidate Stewart Alexander says if he is elected to serve as California Governor, "capital punishment and the Three Strikes law will be on the chopping block to reduce wasteful spending in Sacramento." California taxpayers will spend an average of $250 million ($250,000,000) for each prisoner on death row and most of the cost is related to the high cost of ...