San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon discussed his support for Proposition 34, which would repeal the death penalty in California, at USF last Tuesday. According to Gascon, a former death penalty advocate, there is no correlation between capital punishment and reduced homicides. “When I came to San Francisco we were at 100 homicides a year, [...]

Is it just me, or have a bunch of criminals been in the spotlight ever since Gascón became the new DA? Kamala Harris, the former District Attorney for San Francisco, dismissed many cases, leaving criminals free to roam the streets with no punishment, including one in 2010 where a homeless man stabbed a man in [...]