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Alameda
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What do you care about?
Death Penalty
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  • Combatting Racial and Other Disparities
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  • Ending Excessive Sentences and Promoting Second Chances
  • Ending Over-criminalization and Mass incarceration
  • Ending the Use of Money Bail
  • Ensuring Accessibility Transparency Integrity and Accountability
  • Protecting Immigrant Communities
  • Protecting Workers and Consumers
  • Standing Up to Police Misconduct
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DA Candidates

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Will you pledge to never seek the death penalty, including in any cases sent back to your office after a court has reversed a death sentence in light of Governor Newsom’s moratorium on executions?

Will you publicly support efforts to abolish the death penalty? Please select “Yes” or “No” and provide an explanation.

Will you reexamine previously-imposed death sentences within your county, particularly when there is substantial evidence that the individual suffers from an intellectual disability or serious mental illness, was under the age of 25 at the time of the offense, or experienced extensive childhood trauma?

Will you pledge to never seek Life Without the Possibility of Parole (otherwise known as death by incarceration) sentences?

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Ending Excessive Sentences and Promoting Second Chances
Will you publicly support efforts to abolish the death penalty? Please select “Yes” or “No” and provide an explanation.
Pamela’s Response

Upon taking office, I will immediately direct all deputies to identify cases where the office has been seeking the death penalty and review them for alternative dispositions and impose a prohibition on the death penalty on all future cases subject to prosecution in our office. This will save us millions of dollars on each case and allow us to invest the funds that could go toward other more effective programs. My platform, Point #5, includes a commitment that I will not charge the death penalty in any case, in alignment with the voters of Alameda County who voted twice to abolish the death penalty.

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Will you reexamine previously-imposed death sentences within your county, particularly when there is substantial evidence that the individual suffers from an intellectual disability or serious mental illness, was under the age of 25 at the time of the offense, or experienced extensive childhood trauma?
Pamela’s Response

Upon taking office, I will immediately direct all deputies to identify cases where the office has been seeking the death penalty and review them for alternative dispositions.

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This site is a resource to help us understand the district attorney candidates' stances on key criminal justice issues. We sent every DA candidate a set of questions about their platform. Their responses, or lack thereof, can help us be more informed voters on November 8, 2022.

Why it matters

District Attorneys (DAs) have tremendous power to impact the lives of millions of people, their families, and entire communities. If someone is accused of a crime, it is the DA–not the police–who has the sole power to decide if criminal charges are filed and the severity of those charges. They alone decide who is deserving of a jail or prison sentence and who will instead be routed into a diversion program to help rebuild their life, or have charges dismissed.

In California, we have 58 elected DAs each representing one of our 58 counties. Our job is to elect a DA who is committed to seeking justice in criminal cases, working to prevent crime, and serving as a leader in the diverse communities they represent.

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