His wife killed their kids, and was sentenced to die. He considered it justice. Now, Newsom's death penalty ban seems like injustice to him. From columnist LATstevelopez:
“I am a Los Angeles physician whose three children were murdered by their mother on November 22, 1999,” wrote Dr. Xavier Caro, who asked if I cared to hear why he so objected to what Newsom had done.was a shocker in many ways. Caro was a prominent rheumatologist; his wife, Socorro, was a well-known mom in the family’s Ventura County community.
In his email to me, Caro said he has been recovering gradually in the two decades since the murders and has “achieved a modicum of peace.” But he was shaken by Newsom’s announcement, and disappointed that his ex-wife might not ever have to “take responsibility” for what she did by having her sentence carried out.
“I believe in fairly strict adherence to the law, and I have great respect for the law. That’s the way I was raised, and it’s the way I raised my children,” he said. He knows that people of color dominate death rows in the United States, which might suggest racism, societal divides and a tilted criminal justice system.And he has seen firsthand that the death penalty legal process is slow and expensive.
For me, life in prison without the chance of parole seems in some ways a harsher sentence than the early escape that death brings. Caro doesn’t see it that way.
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