CA’s death penalty faces uncertain future as moratorium continues

(KRON) — The last person executed in California was Clarence Ray Allen on Jan. 17, 2006. In 2016, California voters failed to ...
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California's death penalty could end over claims that it's racist

California’s defense attorneys for years saw their Black and Latino clients sent to death row at a rate much higher than other defendants accused of the same crimes. The data showed that Black people ...
Yahoo

First West Nile virus death in CA was reported in Kings County. What’s the best defense?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kings County resident has died from West Nile virus, the first confirmed death in the county and the first reported WNV death in ...
Santa Barbara Independent

California Has One-Quarter Of All The Nation’s Death Sentences. Will Newsom Commute Them All?

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the state’s ...
Amnesty International USA

46 International Organizations Call on Governor Newsom to Commute All Death Sentences

We, the undersigned 46 organizations, write to you today to ask you for your immediate action to end the threat of execution for more than 550 people currently living under sentence of death in ...
Marin Independent Journal

California Voice: Courts must address the racial bias in death-penalty sentencing

Every person sentenced to death in California over the last five years has been Black or Latino. The last White person sentenced to death was in mid-2021. That fact is part of a pattern of racial bias ...