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"State must put 'death' back in death row"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new commentary in the Sacremento Bee that is authored by David E. Brown, a former commissioner and chief counsel of California's Parole Board.  Here are a few excerpts: Admittedly, California's death penalty is not perfect and probably could never be reformed to the extent that it could always be applied in a fair and just manner.  The problem, however, with California's death penalty is its inability to carry out executions following convictions and sentences. California leads the nation with more than 600 inmates on death row, but only 14 have been executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1978.  A person sentenced to death in California is more likely to die of old age or natural causes than to be executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 24, 2010 (boomark / email).