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: StandDown Texas Project

California's 'Dysfunctional' Death Penalty

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"'Dysfunctional' death penalty racks up 28-year, $5-million tab," I Maura Dolan's LA Times report examining one troubled case.When Chief Justice Ronald M. George described California's death penalty as "dysfunctional," he might have had in mind the curious case of Michael Ray Burgener. Burgener, sentenced to death for murder in 1981, has yet to complete his automatic appeal before the San Francisco-based California Supreme Court. His case has ping-ponged from trial courts to appeals courts over 28 years, and he still does not know whether he will be sentenced to die from lethal injection or spend the rest of his life in prison. Given how long his appeals are taking, there is not likely to be any practical difference...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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