Criminal
Nov. 13, 2010
The Real World Experience With Legal Killing
Illegitimate factors can sway death penalty procedures, giving rise to troubling results. By Ramona Ripston of the ACLU of Southern California.
Every death penalty case raises serious challenges, many of which our legal system is simply not equipped to address. This September, the nation witnessed three executions, which raised particularly disturbing issues, along with California's failed attempt to carry out the first execution in five years. Each of these cases demonstrates the fundamental problems with trying to create a legal system that fairly decides who lives and who dies. <...
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