Politician Carole Migden is upset that San Quentin prison officials have been quietly remodelling the death chamber, after a judge found that the death chamber didn't meet his standards. Politicians are complaining that San Quentin officials are violating some kind of trust of the people of Marin county by getting busy and quietly working to fix the death chamber. Carole Migden is calling for an investigation of why the prison officials were doing this work behind her back.
She is upset that the prison officials added two more viewing chambers, after a judge said the facility was inadequate. According to new reports running for the past two days, she says it was "underhanded and sneaky". She says the people of Marin should have been involved in the delay process (decision process, as she calls it.)
How about this possibility: The people of the State of California pay for that prison to execute the worst of our criminals. If some judge decides it isn't up to standards, why shouldn't the prison officials get busy and fix the problem? Why should they wait for Carol Migden to tell them what to do? Executing criminals is, after all, what the people are paying the prison officials to do.