Simply Put

California has been productive -- even efficient -- recently in cleaning out its death row. After a short dry spell and an attempt in the legislature to create a moratorium on execution, we are about to kill our third inmate in a little more than a month.

I am now and will likely always be opposed to the death penalty. And the Los Angeles Times puts it more eloquently than I ever will.

...there is a far simpler and more principled reason to spare Morales' life. Californians should not put Michael Morales to death because we should not be in the business of killing human beings, even if they are rapists and murderers. It is long past time for California to eliminate capital punishment and instead condemn the most brutal criminals to a lifetime in prison.