"arbitrary, biased, expensive and susceptible to fatal error"

"California's death penalty system is arbitrary, biased, expensive and susceptible to fatal error. It cannot be fixed. It should not be tinkered with. It should be ended." 

(Cross-posted to Huffington Post and Calitics.) ACLU Blog of Rights:  Let's Cut the Death Penalty and Save California $126 Million a Year  Posted by Ramona Ripston, Executive Director, ACLU, July 20, 2010.