In a first, California Supreme Court reverses a death sentence under new racial justice law

Cal Matters ^ | June 3, 2026 | Nigel Duara

[CW_Conservative]

A Los Angeles prosecutor likened a Black murder suspect to a Bengal tiger. Decades later, the California Supreme Court found that trope showed unacceptable racial bias.

The California Supreme Court this week reversed the death sentence of a Los Angeles Bloods gang member convicted of killing a rival Crip in the early 1990s because a prosecutor compared him to a dangerous animal, the first time a death sentence has been overturned under the 2020 Racial Justice Act.

[DarrellZero]

CA does not carry out death sentences anyway, so it doesn’t matter what their crazy courts do.

[CatOwner]

I say detonate munitions on the major fault lines in California, and let the planet take care of the rest.

My apologies to Freepers still living in that political and social hell-hole.

[HYPOCRACY]

What if he called him a black panther? Then he’d be a superhero?

[FlingWingFlyer]

So blacks are more important to the bag o crap, weaponized “judicial” whorehouse in this country? Too many woman. We need to start culling that heard.

[simpson96]

“The California Supreme Court this week reversed the death sentence of a Los Angeles Bloods gang member convicted of killing a rival Crip in the early 1990s because a prosecutor compared him to a dangerous animal”

You can’t make this sh*t up.

[Ronald77]

What do they think these dangerous animals are, cuddly little teddy bears?

[reg45]

I would sentence him to life imprisonment in a cell with four Crips.

[faithhopecharity]

funny, ive never met a racist bengal tiger

maybe tigers become racist when they live in the once-great state/ paradise of Californication?

[Tench_Coxe]

So which Justice’s home is the Blood going to be put up in?

[gibsonguy]

Ca SC. The punk probably took it as a compliment. It doesn’t matter Ca will never carry out a death sentence anyway.

[Lurker]

The 19th Amendment was a terrible mistake.

It should be repealed.

L

[Secret Agent Man]

Any excuse.

[csn vinnie]

The only entity wronged was the tiger.

[aquila48]

Giving blacks license to kill, as if they don’t already do enough of that.

[Zhang Fei]

[So blacks are more important to the bag o crap, weaponized “judicial” whorehouse in this country? ]

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Only the criminals. The law-abiding ones are less important - some even vote Republican.

[griswold3]

Being from Cincinnati, a Bengal Tiger is not a threatening animal at all.

[dayglored]

> My apologies to Freepers still living in that political and social hell-hole.

Not just FReepers. FreeRepublic itself is based in Fresno.

[citizen]

Hilton & Pratt should just give up on the place. Even if they win, all the Kalifornia gov’t & judges will gang up on them.

[Uncle Lonny]

Future headline.

“California gives innocent white man the death penalty under their racial justice law.”