A district attorney facing a recall vote in November backed removing a man from death row who was convicted of torturing and murdering an infant, according to the San Francisco Chronicle Thursday. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, who has received financial backing from left-wing billionaire George Soros, got Superior Court Judge Thomas Stevens on Oct. 14 to spare convict Michael Lopez’s life, giving him a lighter sentence, according to the Chronicle. His punishment was initially the death penalty for first-degree murder and torture after he was convicted in 2001, but it was reduc…
