A federal judge ruled California’s death penalty unconstitutional Wednesday.  The court concluded that lengthy and unpredictable delays have resulted in an arbitrary and unfair capital punishment system. This court decision is a victory.  The Death Penalty has been on-hold in the state of California since 2006 when a different federal judge ruled that the lethal injections used by the state violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. “Inordinate and unpredictable delay has resulted in a death penalty system in which very few of the hundreds of individuals sentenced to death have been, or even will be, executed by … Continue reading California Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional