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Jul 1, 2024 · The Center also produces groundbreaking reports on various issues related to the death penalty such as arbitrariness, costs, innocence, and race.
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California officials offer $20k reward to help find sea lion killer
But Espy's situation is not unique. John Warner, the San Pedro director of the Los Angeles...
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Sea lion dies after being shot in Orange County. Officials offer $20,000 reward
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center conducted a necropsy — an animal autopsy — and confirmed that the cause of death was the gunshot. Th...
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1977 – State Legislature overrides Governor Jerry Brown’s veto and reinstates the death penalty, allowing for capital punishment in first degree murders with any of 12 special circumstances. 1978 – California voters pass the Briggs Initiative which creates California’s current death penalty statute, adding 16 more special circumstances, for a total...
Manuel Babbittwas a Vietnam War Veteran who was executed in 1999 for murdering an elderly Sacramento woman. Babbitt served two combat tours in Vietnam and, while on death row, received the Purple Heart for wounds he received during the Battle of Khe Sanh. After the war, Babbitt was diagnosed with a post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoid schizo...
In early 1941, Fred Rogers’s mother committed suicide by inhaling chloroform. Nine months later his grieving father died of smoke inhalation after deliberately setting his house on fire. Police, suspicious of the two deaths, arrested Fred Rogers for murder. During the interrogation, the interviewers told Rogers that they had enough evidence to send...
William Lindley was sentenced to death for the 1943 murder of a 13 year-old girl. The redheaded Lindley was an illiterate and mentally ill itinerant farmer from Central California. During the investigation, police relied on testimony from a shepherd who witnessed the attack, claiming that the attacker was a redhead. Furthermore, the little girl her...
1872 – Capital punishment authorized in state Penal Code 1972 – California Supreme Court declares death penalty unconstitutional. 107 condemned prisoners resentenced. California voters pass Proposition 17, an initiative that amends the California Constitution to provide that the death penalty is not cruel or unusual punishment.
California’s death row is the largest in the country with more than 665 condemned prisoners (as of January 1, 2023 DRUSA). During the 2016 campaign on Propositions 62 and 66, the Yes on 62 (death penalty abolition) campaign made the dramatic assertion that “California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere.” PolitiFac...
Jun 19, 2019 · The study, released June 18, 2019 by the ACLU, reported that under Lacey’s administration the Los Angeles death penalty has been imposed exclusively against defendants of color, disproportionately for killings of white victims, and disproportionately in cases handled by the worst defense lawyers.
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2021 Year End Report was released on December 16, 2021, and received extensive coverage in hundreds of print, online, television, and radio news outlets across the United States and around the world.
Sep 15, 2020 · The report from the Death Penalty Information Center is a history lesson in how lynchings and executions have been used in America and how discrimination bleeds into the entire criminal...
The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2020 Year End Report was released on December 16, 2020 and received extensive coverage in hundreds of print, online, television, and radio news outlets across the United States and around the world.
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The Death Penalty Information Center’s 2022 Year End Report was released on December 16, 2022 and received extensive on-message coverage in hundreds of print, online, television, and radio news outlets across the United States and around the world. The news that a record number of executions were visibly problematic attracted widespread ...
