Executed man's last request honored -- pizza for homeless

[irishgrl]

Dee, I found this from Niki's website...looks like you may have a point.....

California spends millions more on capital cases
California spends $90 Million dollars annually above and beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system on capital cases. $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). In January 2003, despite a budge deficit, California Governor Gray Davis proposed building a new $220 million state of the art death row. (New York Times, January 14, 2003).

well, well, Niki's fact sheet disproved the stereotypical "death row is disproportionately populated by blacks" theory (which many (Including myself and Amber apparently!) mistakenly believed):

Races on Death Row:
White: 45%
Black 42%
Hispanic 11%
Other 2%

Race of Death Row Inmates actually executed:
White 57%
Black 34%
Hispanic 7%
Other 2%

Another interesting tidbit: 80% of the time, the victims in Death Row cases are White.

California has the most inmates on death row (660) but Texas and Virginia executed the most death row inmates. A death sentence in CA is not necessarily a death sentence apparently.....