Sept. 23
CALIFORNIA:
Former death penalty supporters now working against itA lawyer, a county
supervisor and a retired San Quentin Prison warden are backing Proposition 34,
which would make life without possibility of parole California's toughest
punishment.
Donald Heller wrote
Sept. 13
CALIFORNIA:
Study: Death Penalty Will Cost California Up To $7.7 Billion By 2050
California's prison system is severely overcrowded and expensive, but
incarceration for those sentenced to life without parole is not the state's
most costly form of punishment. With a state
Jan. 26
CALIFORNIA:
Man charged with murder in homeless burning
Prosecutors say a man has been charged with murder in the death of a
homeless man who was set on fire.
In the case filed Monday, 30-year-old Benjamin Matthew Martin is also
charged with 1 count each of torture, arson
Dec. 6
CALIFORNIA:
Death penalty to be sought in murder case
A City Heights man faces the death penalty on charges that he fatally shot
his pregnant ex-girlfriend after delivering roses to her Mission Valley
office last year.
Deputy District Attorney Matthew Greco told a judge today
Aug. 13
CALIFORNIA:
Jury recommends death penalty in 'Dead Presidents' case
A jury recommended the death penalty today for 2 gang members convicted in
the so-called Dead Presidents quadruple slaying in July 2000.
The verdicts for defendants Luis Alonzo Mendoza and Lorenzo Inez Arias
April 12
CALIFORNIA:
Court rules on death penalty, retardationEven if a defendants total IQ
is normal, a deficiency in a particular area may be enough to bar
execution, California justices say.
A defendant may be spared the death penalty because he is mentally
deficient in one area,
Sept. 29
CALIFORNIA:
Death penalty hearing ends
A federal judge could rule by early November on challenges a Stockton man
made to the states method of lethal injection, claiming it causes cruel
and unusual punishment.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose conducted a hearing this
August 11
CALIFORNIA:
So Cal jury recommends death penalty for serial killer
In San Bernardino, a judge will determine whether to follow a jury's
recommended death sentence for former truck driver Wayne Adam Ford,
convicted of strangling four women and dumping their mutilated bodies
June 2
CALIFORNIA:
No death penalty sought in Prunedale homicide, fireMan accused in
knife, incendiary attack
Prosecutors announced Thursday they will not seek the death penalty
against a Las Lomas man accused of killing his brother-in-law, stabbing
his sister and trying to kill her
death penalty news
September 24, 2005
CALIFORNIA:
Jury asks execution for killer of girl, 9 -
Ex-neighbor tripped up by DNA after 14 years
A jury recommended yesterday that a former Chula
Vista bus driver be executed for the abduction
and murder of 9-year-old Laura Arroyo 14 years ago.
The
Sept. 29
CALIFORNIA:
Peterson Defense Focus on Poison Theory
The absence of a bloody crime scene led investigators looking into Laci
Peterson's disappearance to consider the possibility the pregnant
schoolteacher was poisoned to death by her husband, Scott Peterson's
lawyer said in an
Feb. 3
CALIFORNIA:
Bright Enough to Die? The U.S. has outlawed execution of the mentally
retarded. Now it's up to the state high court to decide on what grounds to
spare them.
Before he went to prison, Anderson Hawthorne drove a car, held down a job,
cared for a mentally ill brother and
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