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Mar 12, 2019 · As long as Newsom’s moratorium continues, no one will be put to death. And as of December 7, 2020, Los Angeles County prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty. Capital punishment — the death penalty — is the most serious punishment society can impose on someone for committing a crime.
- Legality. The United States is one of 55 countries globally with a legal death penalty, according to Amnesty International. As of Mar. 24, 2021, within the US, 27 states had a legal death penalty (though 3 of those states had a moratorium on the punishment’s use).
- Life without Parole. Life without Parole (also called LWOP) is suggested by some as an alternative punishment for the death penalty. PRO. Proponents of replacing the death penalty with life without parole argue that imprisoning someone for the duration of their life is more humane than the death penalty, that LWOP is a more fitting penalty that allows the criminal to think about what they’ve done, and that LWOP reduces the chances of executing an innocent person.
- Deterrence. One of the main justifications for maintaining a death penalty is that the punishment may prevent people from committing crimes so as to not risk being sentenced to death.
- Retribution. Retribution in this debate is the idea that the death penalty is needed to bring about justice for the victims, the victims’ families, and/or society at large.
Jun 3, 2021 · Under California’s death penalty law, capital trials are held in two phases. In the first, the jury decides guilt. The verdict must be unanimous and beyond a reasonable doubt.
Nov 23, 2021 · The Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, created by the California state legislature to review the state’s criminal laws, has issued a report unanimously recommending that the state repeal its death penalty.
Now, twenty-three states do not have a death penalty and two other states (in addition to California) have moratoriums on its use. As a result, a majority of states in the United States — as well as the overwhelming majority of nations — do not have the death penalty in law or practice.
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Four years later, voters rejected Proposition 62, with 53 percent opposed and 47 percent in support. By an even narrower margin, in 2016 the voters approved Proposition 66, an initiative intended to speed up litigation in death penalty cases, supported by 51 percent of voters.
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Jun 1, 2021 · The state’s highest court will consider whether to raise the bar for when a jury can sentence a defendant to capital punishment, a decision that could affect pending cases and potentially reverse death sentences for the 704 inmates already on California’s Death Row.
