volunteers for death row

[turtledude]

November 16, 2009

If you were a California lifer, why wouldn't you want to be on Death Row? The condemned get individual cells, better telephone access, nicer contact-visit arrangements, more personal-property privileges — and in fact, the state budget for each is $138,000 a year (compared to $49,000 a year for all other inmates). California now has 685 on death row but has only executed 13 in the last 32 years (versus 71 who have died of causes other than execution). One just-convicted murderer is so anxious to get there that he volunteered confessions to two more murders that no one knew about.

- Los Angeles Times

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: volunteers for death row

What proof would the dead man have the he did, or did not volunteer, for death row?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: turtledude</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
November 16, 2009

If you were a California lifer, why wouldn't you want to be on Death Row? The condemned get individual cells, better telephone access, nicer contact-visit arrangements, more personal-property privileges — and in fact, the state budget for each is $138,000 a year (compared to $49,000 a year for all other inmates). California now has 685 on death row but has only executed 13 in the last 32 years (versus 71 who have died of causes other than execution). One just-convicted murderer is so anxious to get there that he volunteered confessions to two more murders that no one knew about.

- Los Angeles Times
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