[mustang-med]

This is the crap that makes california stink. After 30+ years, I moved my wife and kids out of SF Bay Area, and I was telling my wife exactly this morning, how surreal of a feeling it is to not think about crime in a new england state. When I would drive around the bay area, I would think about the most recent freeway shooting, or the increase in home invasions in the affluent east bay suburbs, etc. After living in the north east for 6 months, it's such a liberating feeling not watching you back all the time because of crack-pot DAs that allow criminals to loot & kill and not get prosecuted (Pamela Price). I couldn't care less for the op-ed above, and california needs to stop being so liberal, it's ridiculous.

[pessimizer]

Executing innocent people doesn't prevent crime. If anything, it tells people that execution has little relationship to what you do, so you might as well do what you want.

How many innocent people would you execute to turn California into New England?

Also, why is New England so solidly against capital punishment?:

- Connecticut ended the death penalty in 2012, after only having used it once (in 2005) since 1976.

- Capital punishment has been abolished in the U.S. state of Maine since 1887.

- Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984, and hadn't used it since 1947.

- New Hampshire abolished the death penalty in 2019, and although they still have someone on death row, they haven't executed anyone since 1939.

- Rhode Island abolished capital punishment in 1852, and hadn't used it since 1845.

- Vermont officially stopped executing people in 1972, and hadn't done it since 1954.

[MichaelBosworth]

New England has no death penalty. California does. What is the crap you are referring to that makes California stink?

[mensetmanusman]

In parts of the Midwest cars are unlocked and keys are kept in them.

Lots of diversity of experience in this country.

[dullcrisp]

You joke but I’ve lived in the US for so long that I’m immune to bullets.