Is it time to remove the death penalty?

With over 700 inmates on death row, San Quentin warden Jeanne Woodford argues it’s time to remove the death penalty, writes Bette Browne

IN San Quentin prison in California just after midnight on four occasions warden Jeanne Woodford checked her watch before giving the final order to execute four men on death row. Today she is among a growing number of Americans campaigning to end the death penalty in the United States, the only Western democracy that still imposes it.