A Santa Ana judge’s ruling challenging the constitutionality of California’s delay-plagued death penalty system has been reversed by a federal appeals court, despite arguments that convicts’ long waits on death row constitute cruel and unusual...
BY SEAN EMERY, Orange County Register: Local
Thu, 11/12/2015 - 11:50am
A Santa Ana judge’s ruling challenging the constitutionality of California’s delay-plagued death penalty system has been reversed by a federal appeals court, despite arguments that convicts’ long waits on death row constitute cruel and unusual...