Appellate Practice
May 26, 2012
Capital punishment is a drag on state Supreme Court
Political debate about the death penalty's social utility and taxpayer cost often overlooks its effect on the high court's workload and on the people at the court required to deal with capital punishment daily.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - When a California death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at one minute past midnight, members of the state Supreme Court gather in the chief justice's chambers at the darkened courthouse, open a phone line to execution officials at San Quentin and await the condemned's final moments.
The post-midnight timing of executions is arranged so that the court has the f...
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