County Asks Governor to Freeze Executions
County supervisors voted 4 to 1 Tuesday for a nonbinding resolution asking Gov. Gray Davis to place a moratorium on executions.
The county joined San Francisco, Menlo Park, Oakland, Berkeley and Santa Cruz in calling for a freeze on executions until studies on fairness in sentencing and the risk of executing innocent people were completed.
“We had 10 speakers who spoke out in favor of the moratorium and only one against it,” said Terry McCaffrey, a retired IBM engineer who is a leader of Santa Clara’s moratorium campaign.
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