Criminal
Feb. 10, 2016
Courts start off new year by affirming death sentences
For the families, friends and relatives of the 13 innocent people murdered in the Wichita Massacre, a sentence of life in prison was unjust. Mercy has its role. So does justice.
Lawrence Waddington
Neutral
JAMS
Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
The new year dismayed critics of capital punishment when the U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court both affirmed the convictions and death sentences of defendants. In Kansas v. Carr, 2016 DJDAR 611 (Jan. 20, 2016), Justice Antonin Scalia wrote an eloquent, stern and emphatic decision reversing Kansas state court judges who had incredulously vacated the death penalty of two defendants who had committed despicable, vicious and reprehensible crimes of murder, rape, robb...
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