The Moratorium Campaign


Death Penalty:	YES
Prohibit Execution of the Mentally Retarded:	NO. However, this state must draft legislation with clear and unambiguous language prohibiting executions of persons with an IQ of less than 70 in order to reflect the recent United States Supreme Court decision Atkins v. Virginia, which held that such executions are unconstitutional.
Life Without Parole:	YES
Minimum Age to Eligible for the Death Penalty:	18
Number on Death Row:	613
Executions Since 1976:	10
Race of Defendants:	243 white (40%), 219 black (36%), 120 Latino/a (20%), 17 Asian (3%), 14 Native American (2%)
Racial Make-up of State Population:	46.7% White not of Hispanic or Latino origin, 6.7% black, 11% Asian, 32.4% Hispanic or Latino, 1% Native American
Innocents Exonerated:	YES (3). Jerry Bigelow was released in 1988 after serving 8 years. Patrick Croy was released in 1990 after serving 11 years. Troy Lee Jones was released in 1996 after serving 14 years.
Columbia University Study Rate of Error in Capital Cases:	87%
Murder Rate:	6 per 10,000 (ranked 20th out of 51)
Governor:	Gray Davis, (Democrat),
Presidential Vote:	54% Gore, 42% Bush, 4% Nader
Public Opinion on the Death Penalty:	48% of the public supports a moratorium. Support for the death penalty has fallen 20% over 10 years. (LA Times 11/2000)
Organizations Endorsing a Moratorium:	City and County of San Francisco City of Berkeley City of East Palo Alto City of Menlo Park City of Oakland Town of Portola Valley County of Santa Clara City of Santa Cruz City of Santa Monica City of West Hollywood 100 Black Men of Los Angeles, Inc. (Los Angeles) A Course in Miracles Study Group (Weed) Abolition Road (Rohnert Park) Action Coalition for Global Change Action Resource Center (Venice) Alameda County Democratic Central Committee Alameda County Green Party, County Council Alameda County Public Defenders Association All Saints Catholic Church (Los Angeles) All Saints Church (Pasadena) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Berkeley Chapter (Berkeley) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Marin Chapter (Marin) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Redwood Chapter (Eureka) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California (San Francisco) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California American Jewish Committee (Los Angeles) Amnesty International, California High School Amnesty International, Group 19 (Palo Alto) Amnesty International, Group 35 Amnesty International, Group 391 (Santa Rosa) Amnesty International, Group 452 (Oak View) Amnesty International, Group 466 Amnesty International, San Francisco Chapter (San Francisco) Amnesty International, University of Redlands Area Support Group for Family & Friends of Prisoners Armenian Orthodox Church Art & Revolution Convergence (San Francisco) Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco) Asians & Pacific Islanders for Community Empowerment (API FORCE) (San Francisco) Association of Micro-Power Broadcasters (Berkeley) Bay Area Campaign to Free Mordechai Vanunu (Oakland) Bay Area Police Watch (San Francisco) Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Berkeley Gray Panthers (Berkeley) Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission (Berkeley) Beverly Hills Bar Association (Beverly Hills) BiPol San Diego (San Diego) BiPol, Jewish Bisexual Caucus (San Francisco) Books Not Bars (San Francisco) Boys and Girls Club of Venice (Venice) Butte Alliance for Medical Marijuana (Chico) California Attorneys for Criminal Justice California Church Impact California Coalition for Women Prisoners California Faculty Association California Newsreel (San Francisco) California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty California Prison Focus (San Francisco) California Province of the Society of Jesus California State Bar Conference of Delegates Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Oakland Chapter (Oakland) Carmelite Sisters, DCJ (La Mesa) Catholics Against the Death Penalty Catholic Worker of Orange County Center for Environmental Health (Oakland) Central California Criminal Justice Committee (Fresno) Christian Prophets of Jehova, Inc. (Fresno) Claremont United Methodist Church (Claremont) Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) (Los Angeles) Conference of Social Justice Coordinators of Southern California Congregation of Beth-El Council of Churches, Santa Clara County (San Jose) Criminal Courts Bar Association (Los Angeles) Criminal Defense Lawyers Club of San Diego (San Diego) Criminal Justice Consortium (Oakland) Death Penalty Action Team (San Francisco) Death Penalty Focus (San Francisco) Death Penalty Focus, Fresno / Central Valley Chapter (Clovis) Death Penalty Focus, Los Angeles Chapter (Los Angeles) Democratic Alliance for Action, Santa Clarita Democratic Club (Santa Clarita) Democratic Women's Club of Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz) Democratic Women's Forum (San Francisco) Democrats of the Desert (Palm Desert) Dolores Mission Church (Los Angeles) Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose (San Jose) Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Dominican Sisters, St. Frances Cabrini Convent (Los Angeles) East Bay Peace Action (Albany) El Cerrito Democratic Club (El Cerrito) Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Esperanza! (Huntington Beach) Faith United Methodist Community Church (Los Angeles) Families to Amend California's Three Strikes Family and Friends of Prisoners Support Group (Clovis) First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland, Temple Sinai (Oakland) First Mennonite Church of San Fransisco (San Francisco) First Unitarian Universalist Church (San Francisco) Fort Jones United Methodist Church, Administative Council (Etna) Franciscan Affinity Group (Berkeley) Fresno Center for Nonviolence (Fresno) Friends Committee on Legislation of California (Sacramento) Gray Panthers of Greater Oakland (Oakland) Gray Panthers of Sacramento (Sacramento) Gray Panthers of San Fransisco (San Francisco) Gray Panthers of West Contra Costa County (El Cerrito) Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension (Oakland) Green Party of San Diego (San Diego) Hayward Demos Democratic Club (Hayward) Headwaters Action Video Collective (Redway) High Desert Catholic Worker Housing America (San Francisco) Humboldt Mediation Services (Eureka) Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Bayside) Immaculate Heart Community Inner Change (San Francisco) Interfaith Council on Religion, Race, Economics, and Social Justice (San Jose) International Jewish Peace Union (Berkeley) International Museum of Human Rights (San Diego) Islamic Networks, Inc. (San Jose) James Markunas Society (San Francisco) Jobs for a Future/Homeboy Industries (Los Angeles) Kehilla Community Synagogue (Berkeley) Kol Ami Congregation (West Hollywood) La Pena del Sur (San Francisco) La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco) Labor/Community Alliance (Coarsegold) Lakeshore Baptist Church (Oakland) Lesbian and Gay Insurrection Little Portion Franciscan Fraternity (Irvine) Los Angeles Catholic Worker (Los Angeles) Los Angeles County Public Defenders Association (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Times Lyrica Jerichombustion (Berkeley) Marin County Progressives (Marin County) Marin Democratic Club (Marin) Marin Human Rights Commission (Marin) McDargh Communications (Dana Point) Media Alliance (San Francisco) Media Watch (Santa Cruz) Men Enabling New Solutions (Los Angeles) Mercy High School Metropolitan Greater Oakland Democratic Club (Oakland) Micah 6:8 (Fountain Valley) Monterey County Interfaith Committee for Social and Economic Justice (Monterey) Most Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church Mt. Shasta Religious Science Society (Mt. Shasta) Mumia Abu-Jamal's Emancipative Stanford Team Investigating Change (MAJESTIC) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Eureka Branch (Eureka) National Coalition of Free Men, Northern California Chapter (San Francisco) National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter (Los Angeles) National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (San Francisco) Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, Social Justice Outreach Council (Pasadena) Network for a Hate Free Community (Santa Clara County) New Fellowship United Church of Christ Church (Berkeley) Newman Center Catholic Community, University of California San Diego (San Diego) Nicaragua Center for Community Action (Berkeley) Northern California Interreligious Conference, Peace with Justice Commission Northern California War Tax Resistence North County Times Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (Occidental) O'Conner Hospital Parish Nurses Office of the Americas (Los Angeles) Older Women's League, San Francisco Chapter (San Francisco) OLINC Publishing (Fresno) Orange County Coalition Against the Death Penalty Orange County Death Penalty Watch Orange County Human Relations Commission our developing world (Saratoga) Our Lady of Guadalupe (Fremont) Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners (San Francisco) Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (Berkeley) Padre Serra Parish Pasadena Mennonite Church (Pasadena) The Paulist Community of Los Angeles (Los Angeles) Pax Christi, St. Joseph-Fremont Chapter Peace and Freedom Party, San Francisco Central Committee (San Francisco) Peaceful Justice at Caltech Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (Palo Alto) People For Justice (San Diego) Petaluma Progressives (Petaluma) Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles Chapter (Los Angeles) Pilgrim's Hope Bible Church (Los Angeles) Poor Claire Missionary Sisters Prison Activist Resource Center (Berkeley) Prison Moratorium Project (Oakland) Prison Radio Project (San Francisco) Progressive Jewish Alliance (Los Angeles) PUEBLO (Oakland) Queen of Angels Catholic Church (Alpine) Rabbinic Association of Greater San Jose (San Jose) Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Leadership Team, Western American Province Religious Society of Friends, Central Coast Preparative Meeting Religious Society of Friends, Chico Religious Society of Friends Religious Society of Friends, Monterey Peninsula Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends, Orange Grove Friends Meeting (Pasadena) Religious Society of Friends, Palo Alto Friends Meeting (Palo Alto) Religious Society of Friends, Sacramento Meeting (Sacramento) Religious Society of Friends, Whittier Monthly Meeting (Whittier) Religious Witness with Homeless People (San Francisco) Richmond District Democratic Club (San Francisco) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Irwindale and Los Angeles, San Gabriel Pastoral Region (Los Angeles) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Los Angeles) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Office of Detention Ministry (Los Angeles) Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernadino Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose, Human Concerns Commission (San Jose) Rosalie Pizza (San Jose) Sacred Heart Convent of Dominican Sisters (Los Angeles) San Bernadino Green Party, County Council (San Bernadino) San Bruno Mountain Watch (Brisbane) San Diego Criminal Defense Bar Association (San Diego) San Francisco Bay Area Pax Christi (San Francisco) San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Examiner San Francisco Food Not Bombs (San Francisco) San Francisco Labor Council San Francisco Liberation Radio (San Francisco) San Francisco State University Academic Senate (San Francisco) San Francisco Women Against Rape (San Francisco) San Jose Mercury News (San Jose) San Jose Peace Center (San Jose) San Rafael First United Methodist Church Santa Barbara Religious Society of Friends (Santa Barbara) Santa Clara County, Human Relations Commission (Santa Clara) Santa Cruz Action Network (Santa Cruz) Santa Rosa Catholic Worker (Santa Rosa) Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Pastoral Care Department (Santa Rosa) Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 616 (Oakland) Siena Community (San Jose) Sisters of Charity Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), Sunland (Sunland) Sisters of Charity Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), West Leadership Team (Los Angeles) Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame Regional Community (Burlingame) Sisters of Mercy, Fair Oaks (Fair Oaks) Sisters of Notre Dame De Namur, California Province Sisters of Providence (Los Angeles) Sisters of Santa Teresita (Los Angeles) Sisters of Social Service, Oakhurst (Encino) Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Los Angeles Province (Los Angeles) Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange (Orange) Sisters of St. Louis, Leadership Team (Woodland Hills) Sisters of the Holy Faith, St. Raymond's Convent (Downey) Sisters of the Holy Names, California Province Sisters of the Presentation (San Francisco) Social Justice Center (Marin City) Social Justice Center of Marin (San Anselmo) Society for the Progress of Peace, Prosperity & Goodness (Diamond Bar) Sophia Center (Oakland) Southern California Criminal Justice Consortium St. Baranbas Episcopal Church St. Benedict Catholic Worker (Fresno) St. Bonaventure High School St. Camillus Catholic Center for Pastoral Cares (Los Angeles) St. Edward Community (Newmark) St. Ignatius Loyola Parish (Sacramento) St. Joseph Church (Hawthorne) St. Joseph Church, Social Justice Letter Writing Committee (Hawthorne) St. Joseph/Old Mission San Jose (Fremont) St. Luke's Presbyterian Church Session (Rolling Hills Estate) St. Martin's Community (Fremont) St Martin of Tours Social Ministry St. Peter' Convent (San Francisco) St. Philip the Apostle Parish (Occidental) St. Raphael's Church, Wednesday Morning Renew (San Rafael) Survivors International (San Francisco) Temenos Catholic Worker (San Francisco) Temple Sinai (Oakland) Tenderloin Housing Clinic (San Francisco) Throop Unitarian Universalist Church Tikkun Community (San Francisco) TIKKUN (San Francisco) Tools for Change (San Francisco) Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, Social Concerns Committee Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin (Marin) Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, Social Action Committee (Redwood City) Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, Pacific South West District Chapter Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, Social Concerns Committee (San Mateo) Ursuline Western Province (Santa Rosa) Valley Oak Park (Santa Rosa) Victim Offenders Reconciliation Program of Monterey County Vote Health (Oakland) War Resisters League, Southern California Chapter (Laundale) West Contra Costa Rainbow Coalition (Richmond) Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), San Jose Chapter (San Jose) Women and Work Study Group (Berkeley) Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring of Southern California Youth Advisory Task Force of Santa Clara County Youth Law Center (San Francisco)
Organizations Working FOR a Moratorium:	Death Penalty Focus – The California Moratorium Campaign 870 Market Street, Suite 859 San Francisco, CA 94102 Missy Longshore-contact 415-243-0143--(day) 415-243-0994--(fax) [email protected] www.deathpenalty.org ACLU of Northern California 1663 Mission St. Suite 460 San Francisco, CA 94103 Dorothy M. Ehrlich-contact 415-621-2493--(day) 415-255-1478--(fax) [email protected] www.aclunc.org ACLU of Southern California 1616 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 Phone: (213) 977-9500 Ramona Ripston-contact www.aclu-sc.org Amnesty International-USA Los Angeles Office 9000 W. Washington Blvd. 2nd Floor Culver City, CA 90232 Kathy Brown-contact 310-815-0450--(day) 310-815-0457--(fax) [email protected] www.amnesty-volunteer.org/usa/scal Amnesty International-USA San Francisco Office 500 Sansome Street, Suite 615 San Francisco, CA 94111 Cosette Thompson-contact 415-291-9233--(day) 415-291-8722--(fax) [email protected] www.semo.tio.net/ai/aisfba.html Amnesty International State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator Tim Spann-contact 619-583-7576--(day) [email protected] Amnesty International State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator Martha Ter Maat-contact 626-281-4039-(phone) [email protected] Amnesty International State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator Kristin Vorhies-Skinner-contact 510-524-0664-(phone) [email protected] California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty 1515 Webster St. #304 Oakland, CA 94612 Eric Moon-contact 510-238-8080--(day) 510-238-8088--(fax) [email protected] Campaign to End the Death Penalty Bay Area Chapter 510-835-0558-(phone) Campaign to End the Death Penalty Los Angeles Chapter Brian Jones-contact 323-993-6180-(phone) [email protected] Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy* California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101-3046 Justin P. Brooks-contact 619-525-1485--(day) 619-557-0330--(fax) [email protected] www.icda.cwsl.edu
Clemency:	The Governor has the exclusive authority to grant clemency, unless the prisoner has twice been convicted of a felony. In that case, a recommendation of the State Supreme Court with four justices concurring is necessary. There have been no clemencies granted since Furman.
Who Decides Sentence:	Jury
Method of Execution:	California authorizes lethal injection and lethal gas. Lethal Injection will be used if the inmate fails to choose a method.

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