Criminal
Aug. 14, 2010
What Will Become Of Our Death Penalty System?
A state commission report suggesting the death penalty system needs a significant overhaul deserves consideration, by Stephen Rohde of Death Penalty Focus.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
By all accounts Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye will be the next Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, but according to recent press accounts, she has candidly acknowledged that she has "much to learn" about "the administration of the death penalty" and was "unaware of a widely publicized 2008 state commission report that suggested possible reforms" in capital punishment.
In June 2008, the independent, nonpartisan California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, follow...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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