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Federal Judge Voids California Death Penalty Law that “Serves No Penological Purpose”
The State of California’s criminal justice system, which in recent years has received increasing scrutiny from the federal courts for what it termed numerous constitutional violations, received yet another setback in a recent federal judge’s ruling that invalidated its “arbitrary” death penalty statute. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney’s ...
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