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Don't fix California's Death Penalty, Replace It! But with what?

By Jonathan Simor

Jon Streeter, Bill Hing,Diane Bellas, make the case for why California's broken death penalty should be replaced rather than repaired, in an op-ed in today's San Francisco Chron. Streeter, Hing, and Bellas, a leading criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and public defender respectively, served on the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, make mince meat of Senator Tom Harmon's recent oped calling for an end to lengthy appeals in order to fix the death penalty. As the senator states, "the death penalty system in California is broken and unworkable." We found that it now takes an average of 25 years for death penalty cases to move through the mandatory court review process. However, the reason these appeals take so long is not because of "legal maneuverings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).