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1 lip 2004 · The recent public debate concerning the death penalty has centered on the appropriateness of this punishment for violent crimes when committed by a person with “diminished capacity.” This question shifts the focus from whether the “punishment fits the crime” to whether it fits the criminal.
In February 1972, the California Supreme Court found that the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the California state constitution and 107 condemned inmates were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole and removed from California’s death row.
This review chronicles the major advances in sleep science over the past 70 years and the development of the primary organizations responsible for the emergence of Sleep Medicine as a specialty, sleep disorders as a public health concern and sleep science as an important area of research.
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it?
The use of the death penalty in California and Louisiana violates U.S. obligations under international human rights obligations to prevent and prohibit discrimination and torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
This chapter uses historical analytical methods to examine when and why the punishment emerged in California, to identify which actors were involved in the debates, and to reflect on how conversations about the death penalty forged ideas about LWOP’s severity.
22 cze 2017 · As Lee and Hall note, the 2014 case of Jones v Chappell found that systemic delay in California’s death penalty system renders it unconstitutional. In California, the time between sentence and execution is 25 years, which is about twice the national average.
