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Jun 16, 2024 · The state government has been transferring the death row population in the infamous San Quentin prison to dozens of penitentiaries across California. EL PAÍS visited Kevin Cooper, who has been...
On July 16, 2014, federal judge Cormac J. Carney of the United States District Court ruled that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional because it is arbitrary and plagued with delay. The state has not executed a prisoner since 2006.
In February 1972, the California Supreme Court found that the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the California state constitution and 107 condemned inmates were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole and removed from California’s death row.
Jan 13, 2023 · The state hopes to permanently empty California's death row by this fall, a CDCR official says. Friend vows to fight the effort. A public hearing on the issue is scheduled in Sacramento for...
- Eric Westervelt
Apr 4, 2024 · California is shutting down San Quentin’s death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at other prisons throughout the state.
- Anita Chabria
- Columnist
- anita.chabria@latimes.com
On March 13, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order instituting a moratorium on the death penalty in California in the form of a reprieve for all people sentenced to death.
Jun 3, 2021 · Hundreds of death penalty sentences in California could be overturned, depending on how the state Supreme Court rules on arguments it heard Wednesday.
