Scharlette hit California’s community of people working to stop the death penalty like a wildfire in the mid-1980s. Her timing was perfect. She arrived from the South just as three good California Supreme Court justices were tossed aside by the voters, and politicians were winning higher office by chanting “Death, Death, Death,” all day and night, even while they were bring financed by Agribusiness and insurance companies. It was clear that sophisticated legal arguments would not work any more, but it was not at all clear what might take their place. More

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