Entries tagged with “Riverside County”
Policy Issues
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
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,Oct 03, 2016
OUTLIER COUNTIES: Riverside County, “The Buckle of a New Death Belt”
Riverside County, California imposed more death sentences than any other county in the United States in 2015, accounting for more than half of the state’s new death sentences and 16% of new death sentences imposed nationwide. Among other states, only the 9 death sentences imposed in Florida outstripped Riverside’s total of…
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 than California’s other 57 counties combined, more than any other state, and more than the whole Deep South…