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On April 24, 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. Justice Marshall F. McComb was the lone dissenter, arguing that the death penalty deterred crime, noting numerous Supreme Court precedents upholding the death penalty's constitutionality, and stating that the legislative and initiative processes were ...
California hasn’t executed a condemned prisoner in nearly 20 years, but prosecutors continue to seek the death penalty, leading to court costs of more than $300 million in the last five years ...
Fentanyl is responsible for the death of 20% of teens and young adults in California (15 - 24). According to California Health Policy Strategies statistics, drug overdoses are now two to three times more fatal than state car accidents. The number of California state fatalities linked to synthetic opioids has climbed by 1,027% since 2017. [3]
[28] [29] From a March 2018 article: "This week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to the nation’s federal prosecutors urging them to seek the death penalty in cases involving large-scale drug traffickers. The memo points to an existing but little-known federal law that already allows for such a punishment.
Protonitazene, a synthetic opioid three times stronger than fentanyl, was connected to an overdose in Stevenson Ranch. Dealer knew his pills had killed, but kept dealing anyway.
Riverside County prosecutors said a jury last year convicted a man of second-degree murder in the fentanyl-overdose death of a 26-year-old woman, the first time a jury handed down such a decision ...
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According to state data, opioid overdose deaths in California among those aged 15 to 19 shot up from 94 deaths in 2019 to 236 in 2021, though they’ve since begun to decline slightly. But parents ...