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Sacramento Bee Examines Geographic Disparity of California Death Sentences

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The SacBee is previewing an article that will be in tomorrow's print edition.  It contains an interactive map examining the geographic disparity of death sentences in the state, at this LINK.Several factors can affect how often prosecutors obtain death penalty convictions. These include, but are not limited to, how often prosecutors seek the death penalty, law enforcement's murder arrest rates, the makeup of juries and the frequency of particularly heinous killings.The web version also contains brief interviews with:Interview with Riverside County District Attorney Rod PachecoHas that changed the number of death penalty prosecutions?: Every case is different. I don't know if we've had more or less (death penalty prosecutions) ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).