LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled California’s death penalty unconstitutional.
The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney follows a similar ruling in Northern California that has kept the death penalty on hold in California for years.
Ruling in the case of a prisoner who was condemned in 1994, Carney wrote that inordinate and unpredictable delays have resulted in a death penalty system in which arbitrary factors determine whether an individual will actually be executed.
Carney vacated the death sentence of Ernest Dewayne Jones.
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The State really should not execute its citizens.
Tell that to the victims 6 ft. underground. And these’s criminals are sitting in jail still alive and breathing.
One killing isn’t right, so therefore two are?
The Bible reads “Thou Shall Not Kill”. I don’t see any ambiguity there.
Of course if you don’t believe in and support the words in the Bible, you should be stoned to death.
A eye for eye.
If we lived in a perfect world, then justice would be perfect; but it’s not.
The National Academy of Sciences says that:
“[T]he law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer.” – William Blackstone
“It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is that guilt be punished.” – John Adams
“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.” – Benjamin Franklin