“I was not expecting the announcement. I don’t agree with the death penalty. I understand the reasons we are asking for it, and that it is also political,” said Jennifer Carole, whose father, Ventura County lawyer Lyman Smith, and stepmother, Charlene Smith, were killed in March 1980. “Which is unfortunate, that D.A.s get involved in politics, but that’s how things are set up in California.”

Source: Los Angeles Times April 10, 2019 22:36 UTC