Appeals court rejects challenge to California death penalty

Associated Press ^ | November 12, 2015 | BRIAN MELLEY

[CedarDave]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that found California's death penalty was unconstitutional because of excessive delays.

[CedarDave]

The three-judge panel was unanimous.

[TheDon]

“California’s death penalty was unconstitutional because of excessive delays”

LOL

[lexington minuteman 1775]

So we can assume executions will being shortly? /sarcasm tag on
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[DPMD]

The artificial delays caused by prison rights attorneys was always meant to be the basis of the movement to abolish the death penalty. They create the delays, then claim that the delays are cruel and unusual and ineffective.

[17th Miss Regt]

They create the delays, then claim that the delays are cruel and unusual...

Which is patently false. The delays are not unusual at all. In fact, they are the rule rather than the exception. And if they are cruel then it makes sense to put the prisoner out of his misery.