Death sentences in California as well as Pennsylvania are cruel and unusual - especially to victims' families. The California opinion wasn't authored by a liberal. It came from Judge Cormac J. Carney, ...
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NORRISTOWN – Judges in Montgomery County appear to be conforming to state sentencing guidelines and rarely sentence convicted criminals above or below those guidelines, according to a state study. Of ...
Four out of five death sentences in Louisiana since 1976 have been reversed. And for every three executions the state carried out, one death row prisoner was exonerated. The new study portrays ...