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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 ...
The penalty phase of the trial was then declared a mistrial. A second jury returned a verdict of death. The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6]
Later in 1972, the people of California amended the state constitution by initiative process, superseding the court ruling and reinstating the death penalty. Rather than simply switch to the federal "cruel and unusual" standard, the amendment, called Proposition 17 , kept the "cruel or unusual" standard, but followed it with a clause expressly ...
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Proposition 17 of 1972 was a measure enacted by California voters to reintroduce the death penalty in that state. The California Supreme Court had ruled on February 17, 1972, that capital punishment was contrary to the state constitution.
Pictures from around Cat House on the Kings: Lynea does not focus on naming the cats. Many of the 700 adult cats already have names from their prior owners and the 300 kittens are numbered.
Tiny But Mighty: Kitten Lady's Guide to Saving the Most Vulnerable Felines. New York: Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-1-5247-4406-9. OCLC 1057730974. Shaw, Hannah René (October 8, 2019). Kitten Lady's Big Book of Little Kittens (First Aladdin hardcover ed.). New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. ISBN 978-1-5344-3894-1.
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