The California Public Prosecutor says that he “is disappointed” with the death penalty trying to unprecedented: guaranteeing every case in the field of death in his jurisdiction that is reclaimed to life prison without conditional release.
Lawyer of Santa Clara Jeff Rosen Declare In 2020 R.HIn hIt is an office Following up the death penalty has not been, since then, 12 prisoners have been resenting.
Now, only one remains.
On Friday, the Santa Clara Provincial Court is scheduled to hear the Richard Farley case, a software technician who killed seven people and was wounded by four others in his previous workplace in Sanifel, the city of West San Jose, in 1988.
The previous court held Listen sessions last year In the boycott efforts to resent Farley, but it is expected that the additional family members of the victims will provide data in the opposition in front of the judge.
Resentment of the provincial lawyer is not uncommon, but they are often controversial. Among them in California is the prominent Eric and Lille Mindez case, who seek their freedom after they previously sentenced them to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release in the death of their fathers in 1989 at their home in Beverly Hills.
But California 592 prisoners of death I have already found comfort. In 2019, the governor of the state, Gavin, put a stop on executions. The last one was made there in 2006, before a continuous decrease in the country in deadly injection drugs.
But the advocates of anti -death penalty say that the executions can still appeal under a future ruler, and the work of the local prosecutors is not prohibited from seeking death sentences in future trials.
The Santa Clara provincial attorney office did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the dissatisfaction on Friday, but Rosen, who was first elected in 2010 in a non -partisan race, said the death penalty “is a preserved regime, a racist bias, does not spoil anything and cost millions of public dollars and our integration as a society.
“Judges and allied people must decide where the inmate will die,” Rosen He said in a statement last year. “God must decide when.”
Among the 17 prisoners of death are qualified to resent the Santa Clara province, four of whom refused to participate, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. Although the reasons are unclear, he did not hear quietly to death prisoners in rejecting similar transfers.
Rosen, which is not in line with Progressive Public Prosecutor MovementIt was previously supportive of the death penalty, Writing in an opinion article In 2012, it can be used “little and responsibility.”
But in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis, Rosen made two flights to the old Alabama Museum, which highlights the country’s history of slavery and exit, and found that his views about the death penalty were transformed.
However, he opened his decision to back down from death sentences.
The husband of Elizabeth Williams Allen, Win “Body” Williams, was among those who were killed by Farley at ESL Inc. , It is a high -tech defense company. Allen, 22, and Williams, 23, was newly married, and both worked in ESL but they did not know Farley, who was launched at that time. Prosecutors said that Farley was chasing a former colleague in his work refusing to advance. He was armed with multiple weapons DEmbrace his face.
Farley’s initial sentence did not attend, but for years she was waiting to learn when he would be executed until she could be a witness. Then, last year, she said, I got a message from Rosen’s office about discontent and amazed.
“I was not very angry in my life,” Aline, who is now 59, said.
While Allen said she could understand the public prosecutor who chooses to re -evaluate an issue that mismanagement and racial bias may undermine, she insists that Farley is not one.
Allen said: “He is white and his victims are white.” “You cannot deal with every crime as if it were the same. When this individual condition of Richard Farley – what he planned to do, and what he decided to do – this is what was created for the death penalty. And no regret appeared.”
Allen was able to track the other family members of the victims to inform them of resentment, and the lawyer of San Jose, Jim Maklis, assists their representation.
McMannis said California Law It is allowed to amend the “prison term” for the defendant, but it does not agree to apply to the prisoners of death because their rulings were not “prison” but death.
“It is not a matter of whether you are with or against the death penalty,” McMannis said. “It is the issue of the rule of law and the application of the statute on it.”
Farley’s general defender refused to comment on discontent, but in the court file, others said they described it as an “perfect prisoner” and that his autism that was not previously diagnosed and his dysfunctional childhood has weakened his understanding of the correct societal behavior as an adult.
Although his autism does not exempt his crimes, the file said: “Explanation of the function of the brain and how it was related to autistic thinking was an important part of mitigation, which may help in setting the context of its crimes and came out of the need for the death penalty. Unfortunately, this guide was not presented to the jury.”
Al -Midash added: “In the absence of the death penalty, Mr. Farley will spend the rest of his life as it was three decades ago – quietly, no danger to his fellow prisoners, employees or California people.”
Allen, however, is concerned about what Rosen’s signal request may send to both criminals and other provincial lawyers.
“This has nothing to do with justice,” she said. “This has a relationship with excessive and unnecessary seizure of his own whims.”
Elizabeth Simmel, a professor and founder of the death penalty clinic in Berkeley Law, said regardless of what someone thinks about the death penalty, there is no evidence that the executions are of public safety.
A Study 2011 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review found that the prisoners’ prisoners of the state cost $ 184 million annually than those who were sentenced to life imprisonment without conditional release.
The cost of capital experiments, general legal representation, and death security, taxpayers cost “hundreds of millions of dollars in random, discriminatory, and unreliable effort to receive grease for the mechanism – the money that is needed in another place.”
Simmel said that the former provincial lawyers in the provinces of Olmeea and Los Angeles tried to resent a large number of defendants, but not on the same range as Rosen.
She added that the provincial lawyer “was frank about what led him to act. He writes and mentioned elsewhere, the death penalty system” is unbearable. “
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