Criminal
May 2, 2015
State Supreme Court upholds death penalty
A California Supreme Court decision released Thursday attracted the attention of trendspotters interested in seeing whether state's high court would lengthen a string of recent capital punishment reversals.
A state Supreme Court ruling on a death penalty appeal Thursday attracted the attention of trendspotters interested in seeing whether the recently reconstituted high court would lengthen a string of recent capital punishment reversals.
It did not. The justices unanimously affirmed a lower court's decision to sentence Kim Raymond Kopatz to death for the murders of his wife and daughter. "Of course ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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