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Executing the Will of the Voters? A Roadmap to Mend or End the California Legislature's Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle
Executing the Will of the Voters? A Roadmap to Mend or End the California Legislature's Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 15, 2013
ANNOTATION: 'This Article uncovers the true costs of administering the death penalty in California by tracing how much taxpayers are spending for death penalty trials versus non'death penalty trials and for costs incurred due to the delay from the initial sentence of death to the execution. In addition, the Article examines how the voter initiative process has misled voters into agreeing to the wasteful expenditure of billions of dollars on a system that has been ineffective in carrying out punishment against those who commit the worst of crimes ' Finally, this Article analyzes corrective measures that the Legislature could take to reduce the death row backlog, and proposes several voter initiatives that California voters may wish to consider if the Legislature continues to ignore the problem' (p. S42). Six sections follow an in-depth overview: bulldozing barrier and unearthing hidden costs'how much California taxpayers are really paying for the state's death penalty; the legislative history of the death penalty in California'paved with good intentions; hazardous conditions head'potential state and federal constitutional issues arising out of California's current death penalty scheme; the road not taken'remedies revisited; roadmap for reform; and conclusion. Since 1978, California taxpayers have spent about
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