Entries tagged with “Jade Harris”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Sentencing Alternatives
,Sentencing Data
,Sep 16, 2019
California Supreme Court Declines to Halt Death-Penalty Trials During State Execution Moratorium
The California Supreme Court has declined to review the petitions of two Los Angeles County defendants who had asked the Court to halt capital prosecutions in the wake of Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to impose a moratorium on executions. The defendants had argued that there was an unconstitutional risk that jurors’ knowledge about the much-publicized moratorium would lead them to believe that any death sentence they might impose was unlikely to be carried…