Criminal Law

"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...

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...

Group Urges End to Illinois Death Penalty
That's the title of an article in today's Chicago Tribune. LINK Despite modest reforms introduced over the last several years, the Illinois death penalty system remains flawed, too expensive and arbitrarily implemented, says a new report from a state anti-death...

Editorial Response to California Commission - UPDATED
Today's San Jose Mercury News carries the editorial, "Death penalty system requires a major overhaul." California has the death penalty basically in name only. With 13 executions in 30 years and 673 inmates now on the nation's largest death row,...

California Capital Punishment Needs Costly Overhaul, Panel Says
Source: Crime & Justice News "Capital punishment in California is too flawed to be effective and is crippled by an appeals backlog that delays punishment for crimes, said a state Senate- appointed panel 's report quoted by the Sacramento Bee...

News Coverage of California Commission
The Los Angeles Times reports, "California's death penalty is dysfunctional, panel finds." California's administration of the death penalty is "dysfunctional" and "close to collapse," plagued by delays of nearly twice the national average from sentencing to execution and drowning under...

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