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"California Case Spotlights Dysfunctional Death Penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this new ABC News piece providing a follow-up to the plea bargained resolution of the high-profile Chelsea King prosecution.  Here is how the piece starts: Chelsea King's parents reluctantly agreed to a sentence of life in prison for their daughter's rapist and killer, calling the death penalty in California "an empty promise." The Kings join a growing list of victims' families, law enforcement officials and other capital punishment proponents who have grown disillusioned with California's death penalty. The decision to forego capital punishment for registered sex offender John Gardner, who this month admitted killing Chelsea King and another teen girl, has once again thrust the gridlocked system into the spotlight...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).

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