Criminal Law

New report assails California's death penalty system
These headlines from the major California papers highlight the heart of a major report documenting flaws with California's death penalty system. From the Los Angeles Times, California's death penalty process is 'dysfunctional,' panel finds From the Sacremento Bee, Death penalty...

Commission gives many recommendations for "dysfunctional" death penalty system
The death penalty system in California is dysfunctional, a state commission found. The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice released its tenth and final report of the administration of the death penalty in California, yesterday...

"Panel Hears of Inequities in Death Penalty; Unabomber's Brother Is Among Witnesses Before Md. Commission"
"Panel Hears of Inequities in Death Penalty; Unabomber's Brother Is Among Witnesses Before Md. Commission": The Washington Post contains this article today. And The Baltimore Sun reports today that "First death penalty hearing held; Md...

California conducts extensive study on costs of death penalty
The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice has conducted an extensive review of California's death penalty system. The report is available here. Among other findings, the Commission concludes that eliminating the death penalty and substituting terms of life without the possibility of parole would save California approximately $120,000,000 per year...

California Panel: Administration of Death Penalty is Close to Collapse
The first comprehensive look at California’s administration of the death penalty in 30 years has produced a study concluding that the state’s administration of the death penalty is “close to collapse” and would require either lots of money or changes in sentencing laws “to end decades of delay and dysfunction...

"California's death penalty process is 'dysfunctional,' panel finds; The time from sentencing to execution is twice the national average; A state commission says delays undermine the system and recommends more sentences of life without parole instead"
"California's death penalty process is 'dysfunctional,' panel finds; The time from sentencing to execution is twice the national average; A state commission says delays undermine the system and recommends more sentences of life without parole instead": Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times...

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