Life-and-Death Decisions: Death Sentence Reversals Cast Doubt on.... / Howard Mintz.
by Mintz, Howard; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 71Institutions. Publisher: Knight-Ridder (1999-June 2002), 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Appellate procedure | Capital punishment | Criminal justice -- Administration of | Federal courts | Judicial error | Reversal (Law) | State courts | CaliforniaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Sixteen years after California voters emphatically endorsed the death penalty by overhauling the state's liberal Supreme Court, state and federal courts continue to reverse California death-penalty cases at a stunning rate: Seven death sentences are set aside for every one carried out. A Mercury News review of hundreds of cases found that a state that touts itself as a national model in resources and legal protections for death-penalty defendants has the same systemic problems that are fueling concerns about capital punishment nationwide." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article examines a study of California's death penalty and relays that "a key finding of the review is that the state Supreme Court, which has become one of the nation's most pro-death penalty high courts, applies a different judicial standard than federal courts.".
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Originally Published: Life-and-Death Decisions: Death Sentence Reversals Cast Doubt on..., April 14, 2002; pp. 1A+.
"Sixteen years after California voters emphatically endorsed the death penalty by overhauling the state's liberal Supreme Court, state and federal courts continue to reverse California death-penalty cases at a stunning rate: Seven death sentences are set aside for every one carried out. A Mercury News review of hundreds of cases found that a state that touts itself as a national model in resources and legal protections for death-penalty defendants has the same systemic problems that are fueling concerns about capital punishment nationwide." (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) This article examines a study of California's death penalty and relays that "a key finding of the review is that the state Supreme Court, which has become one of the nation's most pro-death penalty high courts, applies a different judicial standard than federal courts.".
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