Criminal
Jan. 26, 2011
DA's Party, Views Could Be Foes' Fodder
New San Francisco DA George Gascon's political party change, views on death penalty likely be fodder for his rivals for a full term next year.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
San Francisco has sent only two prisoners to death row since the death penalty resumed in California in 1979, and its last two district attorneys were outspoken foes of capital punishment.
New District Attorney George Gascon, appointed by outgoing Mayor Gavin Newsom, is the first top prosecutor since Arlo Smith to support the death penalty in the famously liberal city. Smith, elected in 1979, was def...
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