Entries tagged with “Kern County, California”

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

Prosecutorial Accountability

Representation

Oct 11, 2016

OUTLIER COUNTIES: Kern County, California Leads Nation in Police Killings, Ranks Among Highest in Death Sentences

Kern County, California — one of five Southern California counties that have been described as the “new Death Belt” — sent six people to death row between 2006 a…

Policy Issues

Arbitrariness

Prosecutorial Accountability

Sentencing Data

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…