Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 24, 2007
Death-Penalty Dysfunction
Forum Column - By Michael C. McMahon - Proposals to move death-penalty appeals to lower courts in California increase the risk of executing the innocent.
FORUM COLUMN
By Michael C. McMahon
All now seem to agree that California's death-penalty system is broken and dysfunctional. The question has become, Can it be fixed, or should it be abandoned as a relic of a barbaric past? As New Jersey becomes the first state in 40 years to abolish the death penalty, California continues to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking ship.
Just last month, t...
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