That's one of the arguments you hear so often in this realm when you're talking about the death penalty.

And that's one of the arguments that just drives me crazy.

Because in California, we have essentially there's two potential sentences for special circumstances murder.

One is the death penalty and the other is what we call ELWOP or life without possibility of parole, okay?

Which, again, like we just

saw with the Menendez brothers, doesn't necessarily mean life without possibility of parole, right?

But, you know, when you're talking about a circumstance like this, right, where you have, you're going to have a life, a life commitment,

you can have the same guards guarding the same prisoner who has the same meals,

and they're going to get the same retirement benefits, and it's going to be the same number.

And all these attorneys that fight these things, especially at the federal level, it's not like

they're going to run off and join the Peace Corps. They're still going to keep their jobs and

they're just going to be challenging, you know, other the same issues, but they're going to be

challenging the L-WOP sentence.

They're going to be trying to get it reversed. So this whole idea, what a lot of people do in that

debate is they say, look at how expensive it is to maintain death row as if the murders never

happened in the first place. And I hope I'm articulating that halfway easily. Like the amount of

money that you save. Now, Coburger himself is apparently

waving his appellate rights as a part of this deal. So maybe they'll save a buck

regarding the appellate process on this. But again, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say

when it comes to the butchery of four young lives at the beginning of their of their lives these four beautiful young kids

that is my tax dollars well spent the attorney general and it is their job and by the way that

those lawyers are salaried they don't they don't charge more based on that as are a lot of the

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