Thursday, July 17, 2014

One state at a time

A US judge has ruled california's death penalty is unconstitutional:


The decision by US district court Judge Cormac Carney represents a legal victory for those who want to abolish the death penalty in California and follows a similar ruling that has suspended executions in the state for years.



He continued, writing that "arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate ones like the nature of the crime or the date of the death sentence, determine whether an individual will actually be executed."

No doubt there'll be an appeal - but in the meantime, California is officially death-penalty free.