The Death Penalty - California
I'd like to know how you all feel about the death penalty in California,
I will be uploading a few documents on Public Document Distributors in relation to California's death penalty, and hope to obtain your honest opinions now, and maybe later as the information is publicized. For now, here's one to start us off:
Attached below is a few documents from the file of a convict in 1924 who was condemned and executed by the state for murder. These documents are a list of press and other people to be notified, an invitation to witness the execution, a letter authenticating the execution was done, the death certificate shortly after, and the instruction for filling it out properly
Hanging was the method at that time, as you'll see in the box marked cause of death. I'll tell you what my research has turned up, and that is that California has hung around a thousand in the state pen, at least from the records, and that's quite a few neck stretchings. The question is: Was it meant to punish, deter, or avenge? And did it accomplish any of those?
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