JUSTICE PREVAILS
As you rightly state in “Justice Prevails,” by Philip Hager (Aug. 13), the removal of Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird, Justice Joseph R. Grodin and Justice Cruz Reynoso from the state Supreme Court in 1986 was caused by a well-financed campaign led by Gov. Deukmejian and supported by reactionaries throughout California.
Almost three years have gone by since that election, and the state Supreme Court with its conservative majority has not allowed one execution. We have lost three outstanding justices because the people of this state were duped by falsehoods and distortions. Executions were not the issue for the governor and his followers. The three jurists just were too liberal.
HENRY L. PALMER, Los Angeles
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