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March 12, 2021 Memorandum 2021-04 Capital Punishment in California I. Introduction Consistent with its mandate to “simplify and rationalize the substance of criminal law,” the Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code undertakes this analysis of the state’s death penalty system to determine if there is a rational path forward that will
The legal process in capital punishment cases in California is highly structured and involves several stages, beginning with the investigation and prosecution of the crime, moving through the trial and sentencing phases, and continuing with the appeals process.
Jun 3, 2021 · Under California’s death penalty law, capital trials are held in two phases. In the first, the jury decides guilt. The verdict must be unanimous and beyond a reasonable doubt.
Now, twenty-three states do not have a death penalty and two other states (in addition to California) have moratoriums on its use. As a result, a majority of states in the United States — as well as the overwhelming majority of nations — do not have the death penalty in law or practice.
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Ending capital punishment in California is a difficult proposition because our current death penalty law was enacted by initiative and can therefore be eliminated only by the same means (or by a court decision finding the law unconstitutional).
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Jun 1, 2021 · The state’s highest court will consider whether to raise the bar for when a jury can sentence a defendant to capital punishment, a decision that could affect pending cases and potentially reverse death sentences for the 704 inmates already on California’s Death Row.
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Jun 7, 2021 · A bellwether of California’s ever-shifting cultural landscape is capital punishment. The issue has been simmering, and occasionally boiling over, for more than seven decades, beginning in 1948 when Caryl Chessman, dubbed the Red Light Bandit, was sentenced to death for a series of violent robberies and rapes in the Los Angeles area.
