Death Penalty Too "Expensive," Fiscally and Morally, for California?

clipped from www.ipsnews.net BOSTON, Jul 30 (IPS) - A high-level California commission has sounded the death knell for the state's "dysfunctional" death penalty system, calling for an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars or the closing down of the state's death chamber. "The time has come to address death penalty reform in a frank and honest way," the commission said in its 145-page report at the end of a four-year-long study.