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"California has high hopes of reinstating death penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this front-page story from the Sacramento Bee.  Here is how the piece gets started (and click here for a larger version of the graphic that accompanies the piece): When Caryl Chessman died in California's gas chamber 50 years ago ? probably the state's most notorious execution ? 18 inmates were left on death row. Today, there are 702. The last execution at San Quentin State Prison was that of Clarence Ray Allen on Jan. 17, 2006, the 13th in California since 1978. Since that day, at least 205 convicts have been executed in other states, 24 death row inmates at San Quentin have died from natural causes or suicide, and 83 people have been sentenced to death in California courts. But no one has been executed in California since Allen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 06, 2010 (boomark / email).