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California's Ex-Attorney General Calls for an End to Capital Punishment

By Joe Piasecki
Pasadena Weekly | July 13, 2009
With more than 700 Death Row prisoners awaiting execution for decades and no money in sight for improving the integrity and efficiency of the failing capital punishment system, John Van de Kamp is publicly calling for an end to the death penalty. But unlike most of capital punishment's ardent opponents, he has actually sent men to Death Row.
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Tags: John Van de Kamp, California, death penalty, Capital Punishment, criminal justice

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