California Seeks Death Penalty In ‘Golden State Killer’ Case
LAPPL
April 11, 2019
California prosecutors announced Wednesday they will seek the death penalty if they convict the man suspected of being the notorious “Golden State Killer” who eluded capture for decades.
The move comes less than a month after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on executing any of the 737 inmates on the nation’s largest death row.
Newsom’s reprieve lasts only so long as he is governor and does not prevent prosecutors from seeking nor judges and juries from imposing death sentences.
Prosecutors from four counties briefly announced their decision during a short court hearing for Joseph DeAngelo. He was arrested a year ago based on DNA evidence linking him to at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and ’80s. He stood expressionless in an orange jail uniform, staring forward from a courtroom cage, as prosecutors from Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Orange and Ventura spoke.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Even if DeAngelo were to be sentenced to death, endless appeals would leave him roosting on California’s death row after Newsom is gone, probably till he died of old age.
2 comments:
You hit that one 100% right Howie.
Exactly, what is the point. There is zero chance he will be executed. Absolutely none. The state is wasting tons of money engaging in this macabre theater and pretending to the victims families that he will actually receive the death penalty. He will be sentenced to a single cell at San Quentin until he dies of old age and in the interim, the taxpayers will be providing him very expensive appellate lawyers. Because he will die while his appeals are pending his convictions are expunged. This is some of the stupidest government insanity I have ever seen. What morons
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