1stRambo
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Yo, if they are guilty? Kill them, the same way they killed!!! But the sissy Democrat Party can`t seem to carryout the Laws of the land!!! Can we say the Party without Ball`s?
Court considers challenge to California death penalty
By BRIAN MELLEY
Aug. 31, 2015 5:00 PM EDT
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court considering whether California's death penalty is unconstitutional because of excessive delays focused Monday mainly on procedural issues over whether a killer's novel legal theory had been addressed by the state Supreme Court.
In the case of a Los Angeles rapist and murderer on death row for more than two decades, three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wanted to know if all appeals were exhausted in state court before a federal judge ruled last year that the death penalty was dysfunctional because of unpredictable delays that have seldom led to executions.
Few would argue that California's death penalty provides swift justice.
More prisoners have died of natural causes on death row than have perished in the death chamber. More than 900 killers have been sentenced to death since 1978, but only 13 have been executed.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled last year that years of unpredictable delays from conviction to execution resulted in an arbitrary and unfair system that violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment barring cruel and unusual punishment.
"GTP"
They will try everything to keep this crook out of jail!
Court considers challenge to California death penalty
By BRIAN MELLEY
Aug. 31, 2015 5:00 PM EDT
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court considering whether California's death penalty is unconstitutional because of excessive delays focused Monday mainly on procedural issues over whether a killer's novel legal theory had been addressed by the state Supreme Court.
In the case of a Los Angeles rapist and murderer on death row for more than two decades, three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wanted to know if all appeals were exhausted in state court before a federal judge ruled last year that the death penalty was dysfunctional because of unpredictable delays that have seldom led to executions.
Few would argue that California's death penalty provides swift justice.
More prisoners have died of natural causes on death row than have perished in the death chamber. More than 900 killers have been sentenced to death since 1978, but only 13 have been executed.
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, an appointee of President George W. Bush, ruled last year that years of unpredictable delays from conviction to execution resulted in an arbitrary and unfair system that violates the Constitution's Eighth Amendment barring cruel and unusual punishment.
"GTP"
They will try everything to keep this crook out of jail!
