HOW ARE WE SERVING JUSTICE?

January 17 is the scheduled execution day of Clarence Ray Allen, but we must ask ourselves, is this execution a means of serving justice or following the traditions of ancient civilizations. This scheduled execution demonstrates how callus and unmerciful we have become as a society. Here is a man that is dying everyday, cripple, using a wheelchair and walker, blind, in failing health and now we are preparing to take his life.


December 13, 2005 we executed Stanley “Tookie” Williams after we gave him more than a decade to become rehabilitated. He proved to us the system could work, so we executed the man. Hundreds of men and women are now on death row because they could not afford justice and a good defense. The system is not working.


For years our courts and criminal justice system has been in grid lock therefore Clarence Allen has been on death row for more than two decades where time has tracked him down and we cannot wait for the natural event that is now occurring. What satisfaction can anyone receive from the execution of Clarence Allen, it is beyond uncivilized.


As a candidate for California Lieutenant Governor I believe it is time for us to shut down death row. I believe California should have a Life Till Death sentence for criminals that commit vicious crimes without the possibility of parole.


If Governor Schwarzenegger fails to commute the execution of Clarence Ray Allen to life in prison then all Californians should weigh his acts in his bid to become governor in 2006.

Stewart A. Alexander

Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor

Peace and Freedom Party

stewartalexander4p&f@adelphia.net