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"California's idea of the death penalty is to bore them to death"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is a quote from the father of a murder victim in this notable local story, which highlights that not much is likely to change for most California defendants on death row even if the state does manage to resume executions this week.  The effective piece is headlined "Local death row cases years from execution," and here are excerpts: California's plan this week to carry out its first execution of a death row inmate since 2006 won't mean any local cases are closer to seeing a date set for lethal injection.  Of the 708 people on California's death row, seven men and one woman have been sent there by North County juries over the past two decades. They probably will remain there a long time.  The process from sentencing to execution is cumbersome ? and decades long...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).