Criminal,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights,
California Supreme Court
Oct. 29, 2020
Friends of the court, enemies of the death penalty
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court that "racial discrimination infects the administration of California's death penalty" because existing "inequities in the imposition of death sentences are the result of racial terror and subjugation."
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.
On Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court that "racial discrimination infects the administration of California's death penalty" because existing "inequities in the imposition of death sentences are the result of racial terror and subjugation." On that same day, four current and two former California district attor...
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