Field Poll: By Mark DiCamillo and Mervin Field (July 2010)
"The latest Field Poll finds seven in ten (70%) California voters continuing to support the death penalty as a punishment for serious crimes in this state. However, if given a choice, about as many voters would personally opt to impose a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole (42%) as would choose the death penalty (41%) for someone convicted of first-degree murder...
There are now 705 prisoners on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison.Their fate awaits the resolution of a number of legal challenges to the lethal injection procedures used to carry out the death sentence..."
