department, having been looking at a department and trying to offer solutions. i realize how complex and challenging it is to move the agenda, but if you have good will for the different sides, but we can do it if there is a commitment on the part of the department as well as the public officials. because public officials need to make a commitment to hold the police department accountable. if they do not do that, it does not matter what the lawyers agree upon. at the end of the day, the officers will be held accountable to the public officials and public officials if the public officials do not hold them accountable, and nothing positive happens in the long run. [applause] i think john is right. one of the important things about this conference is san francisco is different. i cannot imagine sitting at the table of the chief of police of oakland or sacramento, and the chief of police being here. it does not end the questions. it is a conversation that has to get down to i
and he regretted the situation and he felt no ill will towards anyone. and he was thankful that the process was coming to a close. and he stated, that he was not guilty. innocent people go to death row and more of them die. this was enough to cause any government to stop and take stock of where this was regard to the death penalty. in regard to that question, it always comes down to the morality of it all. let s start with questions for the panelists. george, thank you for being here. i know that we welcome and appreciate you being here. the remarks that you made, this has caused concerns for many opponents of the death penalty to have celebrated the fact that san francisco moved away from this and did this rather convincingly, and i want to put the question out there. are you in favor of the death penalty? the answer, this is no. but it is important to recognize the role that i play. i think it would be inappropriate for me to say, categorically if you look at this,
when you execute someone who has been there for 12 years, you are not executing the same man who came in. the notion that the system has no flock, stanford law school has posted something from 1900, and this is well documented. these are innocent people being executed. in that same time, almost 400 other people were released from death row before they were executed because they were found to have been innocent. ladies and gentleman. at 4:a.m., edward earl johnson was executed in the gas chamber with the sentence of the second court, and i ll be glad to entertain any questions that you may have. he indicated his innocence, and he regretted the situation and he felt no ill will towards anyone. and he was thankful that the process was coming to a close. and he stated, that he was not guilty. innocent people go to death row and more of them die. this was enough to cause any government to stop and take stock of where this was regard to the death penalty. in regard to tha
the reason they re put on administrative leave while the investigation continues is to make sure the investigation goes forward and the officer is not outside. i do not think it is looked upon by the officers and i know it is not intended by the police department as a reward. it is just something done as the investigation goes forward. once the finding is made, then it proceeds. if it is not a criminal trial, as with the oscar grant shooting, everybody saw the way that went. [unintelligible] i am sorry? and if it goes another way, then it proceeds down that track. any other comments? any closing comments by anyone? i think they have said their due. i have one. ok. these issues are very complex. there are legitimate sides. but i do think that it requires thoughtful analysis of the issues as we try to look at a department, having been looking at a department and trying to offer solutions. i realize how complex and challenging it is to move the agenda, but if you
signed the execution on an innocent kid is something i would not want to have to deal with. it told us there was some kind of test what will i do? he said this? they tried this out? they just told me this morning that they would kill me. [unintelligible] more implications for my personal religious background. i remember when i executed him, when i left that night to go to the press conference, my wife was outside and is hit me all at once. every time the war and executes a prisoner, a piece of them dies as well. this leaves you feeling very frustrated, and i had said, with the executions i was involved with, each of those four times, i climbed into the shower and i would scrub and scrub. but you cannot make yourself clean. when everyone else was sleeping in the middle of the night, i was killing someone. everybody else got to get up once more like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. this is another thing if you actually have to do this. i was watching them die