Posts tagged Life without Parole
Californians continue to sour on death penalty, poll finds, feeding momentum to end it

“A new poll found that Californians, by a 2-to-1 margin, support sentencing first-degree murderers to life in prison rather than the death penalty, an indication that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent decision to impose a moratorium on executions may align with public sentiment against capital punishment. The poll results could potentially revive efforts to abolish the death penalty in California, including a proposed constitutional amendment being considered in the state Legislature that could land on the 2020 ballot, and embolden Newsom to take additional action against capital punishment.“

LA Times

March 27, 2019

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Death PenaltyPhillip ReevesLA Times, California, Life without ParoleComment
Fighting to End the Other Death Sentence: Life Without Parole

“Noted political scientist and author Marie Gottschalk has called life without parole ‘death in slow motion.’ Pope Francis deemed it ‘a death penalty in disguise.’ Kenneth Hartman, who served more than 37 years in prison before California governor Jerry Brown commuted his sentence, was the first to label it ‘the other death penalty.’ When he was still behind bars, Hartman wrote for The Marshall Project that life without parole is ‘the sense of being dead while you’re still alive, the feeling of being dumped into a deep well struggling to tread water until, some 40 or 50 years later, you drown’.“

Truthout Magazine

September 16, 2018

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SentencingPhillip ReevesTruthout Magazine, Life without ParoleComment