On today's Your Call, we’ll talk about the history of the death penalty and the moratorium initiative on November’s ballot. April 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the resumption of executions in California. Since then, 13 people have been executed, costing an average of $308M each. Will California become the sixth state in the country to repeal the death penalty? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What explains the nationwide shift against the death penalty? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and You.
Guests
Ana Zamora, program director at Death Penalty Focus and the Assistant Campaign Manager of the SAFE California Campaign to replace the death penalty with life in prison without parole.
Michael Kroll, served as the first director of the Death Penalty Information Center in D.C., and a playwright whose play "Just Like a Dog" was inspired by his witnessing of an execution in California
Deldelp Medina, the Northern California outreach coordinator for California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and a spokesperson for the SAFE California campaign; her aunt was murdered by her own son, Ms. Medina's first cousin.
Resources
Death Penalty Information Center
California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
KALW-- The Informant: Q&A: Former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford
Huffington Post: 11 Stories That Are Making History
MSNBC: Connecticut lawmakers prepare to vote on death penalty repeal
WTNH: Exonerated man weighs in on death penalty
Public News Service: Connecticut Death Penalty Move Echoes in Kentucky
Western Criminology Review: Not In My Name: An Investigation of Victims’ Family Clemency Movements and Court Appointed Closure
POLL: Should California Voters End The Death Penalty To Save Money?
