Report and Recommendations on the Administration of the Death Penalty in California, by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, is our site of the day

Published: June 30, 2008, 2:49 pm

Within the last hour, a long awaited report has been issued by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, the first comprehensive review of the operation of California's death penalty law since its initial enactment in 1978. Their 145 page Report and Recommendations on the Administration of the Death Penalty in California was prepared after the commission, created by the California State Senate, and whose membership is diverse with representatives from law enforcement, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, law school professors, and others took extensive testimony at public hearings and funded studies by the Rand Corporation and independent research. Their bottom line conclusion: California's death penalty system is dysfunctional, they say in agreement with a statement made by California Chief Justice Ronald M. George. They summarized the testimony of 72 witnesses who appeared before them as describing a system that is close to collapse.

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