Criminal
May 10, 2012
Death penalty: putting the fiancial viability of courts in doubt
It turns out that simply replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment can save significant money and court resources. By Robert Sanger of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
The death penalty is wrong, expensive and the system is broken. In my view, it is just plain wrong to kill another person when it is not in self-defense or in war. But lawyers, even those who may not share that view, have an interest in ending the death penalty in California. Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and her predecessor, Chief Justice Ronald George, agree that the death penalty system in is exceedingly expensive and dysfunctional. <...
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