Cali did it. Other will follow in short order.
A federal judge has ruled that California’s death penalty system is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney handed down an order Wednesday, finding that the system is arbitrary and in violation of the Constitution’s 8th Amendment.
“California’s death penalty system is so plagued by inordinate and unpredictable delay that the death sentence is actually carried out against only a trivial few of those sentenced to death,” Carney writes. “For all practical purposes then, a sentence of death in California is a sentence of life imprisonment with the remote possibility of death — a sentence no rational legislature or jury could ever impose.”
The left completed the Cloward-Piven strategy and found a judge who couldn’t see that that was the plan.
But the solution is simple – execute convicts faster. How difficult is that?
It’s bizarre – if you kill them fast, that’s not giving the slow wheels of justice time to work, but if you respond to all the convicts appeals and delays, then it’s unconstitutionally slow? Only in CA. Maybe a higher court will mandate that they expedite all capitol cases, render a final verdict within a year.
I’m generally a law and order supporter. I was much less equivocal before the war on drugs and no knock SWAT raids resulting in the deaths of innocent citizens became so common, but the death penalty in California has been an overly expensive lawyer full employment program for decades. It’s cheaper to just lock them up for life without the possibility of parole than to try to execute them. That and the mess with faked forensic lab results here in CA. Let’s just save some tax dollars. Put some liberal lawyers in the unemployment line and lock these scumbags up and throw away the key. I think the judge did us a favor in this case.