Entries tagged with “San Bernardino”
Issues
Oct 31, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: San Bernardino, California Shares Problematic Patterns of Neighboring Counties
San Bernardino County, California is one of five Southern California counties that have produced more death sentences since 2010 than 99.5% of all U.S. counties. Along with its neighbors, Kern County, Riverside County, Orange County, and Los Angeles County, San Bernardino forms a “new Death Belt,” a region with high numbers of death sentences marked by overzealous prosecutors and poor representation for defendants facing a death sentence. In January 2013, San Bernardino had 37 prisoners on…
Issues
Sep 10, 2015
Southern California Tops Deep South in New Death Sentences Amid Mounting Evidence of Misconduct
Riverside County, California is “the buckle of a new Death Belt,” says Professor Robert J. Smith of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, producing 7 death sentences in the first half of 2015. This, Smith says, is “more than California’s other 57 counties combined, more than any other state, and more than the whole Deep South combined.” Los Angeles County has produced 33 death sentences since 2010 — the most in the Nation — and 5 Southern California counties (also including Kern…