Constitutional Law
Jul. 23, 2014
Intolerable cruelty and capital punishment
Last week's historic ruling by Judge Cormac J. Carney that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional breathed life into the adage that, "justice delayed is justice denied."
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
If ever a court truly breathed life into the adage that "justice delayed is justice denied," it was last week's historic ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional.
"Where the State permits the post-conviction review process to become so inordinately and unnecessarily delayed that only an arbitrarily selected few of those sentenced to death are executed, the State's process violates the Eight Amendment. Fundamental pr...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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