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DESCRIPTION:On October 19 at the 163rd Convention of the Diocese of California of the 
 Episcopal Church exhibitor Katrina’s Dream http://www.KatrinasDream.org 
 announced that on November 6th, 2012 at sunrise where they will be 
 gathering at the West Gate at San Quentin Prison calling on voters to 
 replace the Death Penalty here in California. They will be spotlighting 
 Prop. 34 at the Election Day Vigil. The convention passed a resolution 
 calling for diocesan support of the Proposition 34, which replaces the 
 Death Penalty with a life sentence. 
 http://www.diocal.org/sites/default/files/media/PDF%20Docs/2012_resolutions.pdf\n\nActive 
 in prison law reform, the small group has been holding vigils since 
 February 7, 2011.  http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/28/18670488.php 
 The group felt compelled to bring attention that that past January, 
 Governor Brown granted an extension to the Department of Corrections to 
 amend their budget to include 356 million dollars for remodeling 
 (http://www.ccpoa.org/news/monthly/2011/01/) and that U.S. District Judge 
 Jeremy Fogel would be inspecting last years remodel at a cost of $900,000.  
 The February vigil garnered extensive coverage by the local networks. 
 http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/judge-to-tour-san-quentins-new-death-chamber/nKhdR/\n 
 \nThen on April 28, 2011, after a few months of vigils Governor Brown 
 scrapped the remodeling, which had been set in motion when former Governor 
 Gray Davis was in office. 
 \nhttp://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/Brown-Kills-Death-Row-Remodel-120887919.html 
 \n\nOn Monday, June 27th, Senator Loni Hancock amended her existing bill 
 SB490, turning it into a vehicle for carrying her death penalty 
 legislation.  Please see 
 \nhttp://dist09.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={42B6205A-0002-4B2A-8F1D-300E16EEBB0E}&DE={D23BFCDF-6688-4A51-9A70-BE9DF196521E} 
  \n\nA few months later the ACLU and several groups collaborated and 
 signatures were gathered putting Prop 34 on the 2012 November ballot. 
 \n\nAccording to the Loyola Law Review Study by U.S. 9th Circuit Judge 
 Arthur L. Alarcon and Loyola Law School professor Paula M. Mitchell, 
 titled, "Executing the Will of the Voters: A Roadmap to Mend or End the 
 California Legislature's Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle", the 
 abolishing the Death Penalty will save the state about 200 million dollars 
 a year. Please see 
 \nhttp://media.lls.edu/documents/LoyolaLawReview_CADeathPenalty.pdf.  \nThe 
 authors outlined three possible directions: \n1) fully preserve the system 
 of capital punishment at an additional cost of $85 million for courts and 
 lawyers each year (they are approximately 100 attorneys in California 
 qualified to work on the now mandatory Death Penalty appeal cases); \n2) 
 reduce the number of death penalty-eligible crimes for an annual savings of 
 $55 million; or \n3) abolish capital punishment and save taxpayers about $1 
 billion every five or six years.\n\nBesides saving taxpayers billions of 
 dollars, the fact that hundreds of innocent people have been exonerated, 
 such as, Damon Thibodeaux, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 
 death for murder in 1997. The Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana, 
 along with the Innocence Project and a team of private pro-bono counsel 
 took his case on appeal and eventually obtained DNA evidence that Mr. 
 Thibodeaux was not the murderer. 
 http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/04/free-last\n \n“Mr. 
 Thibodeaux’s case shows in vivid detail that with the death penalty, we 
 always risk executing an innocent person,” said Natasha Minsker, Campaign 
 Manager for the Yes on 34 Campaign. “Mr. Thibodeaux is just one example 
 – there are 140 death row exonerations nationwide to date and hundreds of 
 wrongful convictions just in the state of California. Last year alone, 
 Franky Carrillo, Obie Anthony and Maurice Caldwell were released from 
 prison after spending a cumulative total of 57 years behind bars because of 
 wrongful convictions. The only way we can eliminate the risk of a fatal, 
 irreversible mistake in California is to vote YES on 34.” \n\nPeople 
 reading this are invited to join the small group at the Election Day Vigil 
 at San Quentin.  Support for Close the Death Chamber: Election Day Vigil is 
 welcomed on Facebook. 
 [http://www.facebook.com/events/263993593684451/?context=create] \nAs well 
 as visit the Yeson34.org event page for events in their area 
 http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1265/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=12035\n\nKatrina’s 
 Dream is the full inclusion of women in society and other social justice 
 issues.  \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/31/18724876.php
SUMMARY:Election Day Vigil
LOCATION:West Gate at San Quentin Prison, Marin County
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/31/18724876.php
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