Elisabeth Semel Argues Against Death Penalty

Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2010 by Arnold Friedman
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-friedman-death-penalty-20101031,0,1760273.story

Law professor Elisabeth Semel, director of the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Death Penalty Clinic, suggests another reason for dispensing with capital punishment. The families of murder victims deserve an ending, she says. Semel is well aware of the frustration and disgust experienced by family members as they wait year after year for the killers of their loved ones to exhaust their appeals.