California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu, shown in 2017, argued in a decision Thursday that the state's death penalty system is dysfunctional, expensive and doesn't deliver justice in a timely way. , two justices on the state’s highest court called California’s death penalty “an expensive and dysfunctional system” that delivers neither justice nor timely closure.
Justice Goodwin Liu, joined by Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, both appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, reiterated the evidence Newsom cited when he announced the moratorium.“A death sentence in California has only a remote possibility of ever being carried out,” he said. “As leaders of the judiciary have long observed, the death penalty presents serious challenges for the fair and efficient administration of justice. For decades, those challenges have not been meaningfully addressed.
The two justices also said that Proposition 66, passed by voters in 2016 to speed up executions, will not resolve the problem because it did not provide additional funding. “In the meantime, the judiciary will continue to do its duty under the law, leaving it to the voters and our elected representatives to decide whether California should double down on the current system or chart a new course,” Liu and Cuéllar wrote.A roundup of the stories shaping California.
Note to Supreme Court justices: whose fault is that?
It doesn’t matter. It is what the people voted FOR. Newsom is in NO position to change that.
time-consuming and costly by the same people (plaintiff's attorneys and their army of sympathizers in press and media) who complain about how time-consuming and costly capital punishment is. it's a self-fulfilling profecy.
it doesn't give a 'timely closure' due to the endless, bottomless, boundless appellate system, in which people convicted in 1989 can still be apoealing their cases in 2019 on technical and procedural grounds, not evidence-based ones. 'the system' has been made..........
That's because the so called justice is delayed but one appeal after the other and done over years. The sick pos who beat a kid to death with a hammer should be put down after a simple review. The idea that the needle stick might hurt him, or he is not of right mind is BS. $$$
We can make it efficient by reducing the time span death row convicts have to appeal their convictions from *up until the moment they die* to a more reasonable *5* years. No reason anyone should be made to wait so damn long. Just get it over with. Innocent sminnocent, just do it.
Death penalty saves money as it gives the wretched murder a quick out if offered a life sentence. Take way the death penalty and the litigation will be extended on and on. Defense lawyer's job is to reduce the penalty no matter what.
Voters specifically voted against the end of the executions. In fact, they wanted them accelerated. Newsom is acting like a dictator making decisions in opposition to the will of the people of the state.
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