Perspective
Aug. 13, 2014
The road to death penalty abolition
In July, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney of the Central District of California declared the death penalty in California unconstitutional, citing the lengthy delays in its administration. What's next? By Hadar Aviram
In July, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney of the Central District of California issued a decision in Jones v. Chappell, vacating Ernest Dewayne Jones' death sentence. But this wasn't merely a decision in one particular case: Carney declared the death penalty in California unconstitutional, citing the lengthy delays in its administration.
As the decision notes, since the reinstatement of the death penalty in California in ...
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