"As for the random few for whom execution does become a reality, they will have languished for so long on Death Row that their execution will serve no retributive or deterrent purpose and will be arbitrary."
-U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney for the Central District of California, writing that the state's death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment because it is so slow and unpredictable. (Jones v. Chappell, 2014 WL 3567365...
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