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Jul 28, 2009 · Celeste Carrington, 47, is one of only 15 women among 683 condemned prisoners in California. The justices unanimously rejected defense arguments that police had illegally searched her apartment...
- Courts Reporter
Jun 19, 2024 · This week, the California Supreme Court upheld a capital sentence from a trial that had no Black jurors. One by one, a California prosecutor eliminated five out of six Black women from the jury pool for a death penalty case in which a white carpet cleaner slayed his client, a young mother.
- News Intern
Feb 28, 2011 · A recent study by Professor Steven Shatz of the University of San Francisco Law School and Naomi Shatz of the New York Civil Liberties Union suggests that gender bias continues to exist in the application of the death penalty, and that this bias has roots in the historic notion of chivalry.
May 1, 2019 · “The simple explanation is that women are sentenced to death at a lower rate than men because of chivalric attitudes on the part of prosecutors and juries,” says the report by Steven and Naomi ...
- Jerry Carnes
- 1 min
Why are such women so commonly condemned but ignored by our death penalty system, by scholarly research on crime and the death penalty, and to some degree by the popular media?
- Victor L. Streib
- 2006
Dec 3, 2018 · The court held that a person convicted of a capital offence in this country cannot be sentenced to suffer death as a matter of course without the court considering mitigating factors and other pre-sentencing requirements. This is because a death sentence is no longer mandatory in this country.
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The scope of the principle of rarest of rare: In Jagmohan Singh v State of U.P. 1973, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty, holding that it is not merely a deterrent but marks the rejection of the crime on the part of the society.
