Criminal,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 29, 2014
Death penalty ruling is 50 years late
Judge Cormac Carney has started a process that should have been started by the U.S. Supreme Court in a notorious California case more than 50 years ago.
Sanford Jay Rosen
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On July 16, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney invalidated California's death penalty. After reviewing voluminous evidence he held that, "Inordinate and unpredictable delay has resulted in a death penalty system in which very few of the hundreds of individuals sentenced to death have been, or even will be, executed by the state. It has resulted in a system in which arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate ones like the nature of the crime or the date of the death sentence, determine ...
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