"The death penalty is not about justice; it is about revenge. If we truly care about the victims of violent crime, their suvivors will be far better served by using public funds to help them pay for funeral expenses, replace lost income, obtain grief counseling, relocate, or provide other resources that will do far more to help them heal than offering up the corpse of the perpetrator on the altar of capital punishment."
That's Aundre Herron, former prosecutor, whose brother was murdered in 1994, testifying before the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice. Thanks to Natasha Minsker of the ACLU of Northern California for sending around a link to the great video of Aundre's testimony; we urge everyone to take a look.
Natasha also sent word of another video of victims' family members testifying against the death penalty at the Commission hearing. What's interesting about this one is that it was created as a visual letter to the editor criticizing the Sacramento Bee for failing to include in its coverage of the hearing any mention of anti-death penalty victim testimony.
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