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California Counties Diverge on Death Penalty

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That's the title of Phillip Reece's article in today's Sacramento Bee.  LINK Murderers are more likely to be sentenced to death in conservative California counties, particularly in the southern part of the state, according to a Bee analysis of recent data from the state attorney general's office.From 1998 to 2007, prosecutors obtained about one death penalty conviction for every 100 murders statewide, the figures show. In Orange County, the rate was twice as high; in Riverside County, it was three times as high.At the same time, San Francisco and San Mateo counties haven't sentenced anyone to death in 15 years (with the exception of the Scott Peterson case transferred to San Mateo from Modesto.) Overall, the five large California counties with the highest rate of registered Republicans sentenced murderers to death almost three times as frequently as the five counties with the lowest rate of Republicans...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).