Entries tagged with “Orange County, California”
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Dec 28, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: Orange County, California Plagued by Misconduct Scandals
Orange County, California imposed nine death sentences between 2010 and 2015, more than 99.8% of American counties, and ranking it among the 6 most prolific death-sentencing counties in the country during that…
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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…