California's death penalty system is dysfunctional and expensive, and a ballot measure approved by voters to speed up executions will not make it 'workable,' a state Supreme Court justice says in an unusual opinion.
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo California Supreme Court Associate Justice Goodwin Liu pauses in his office in San Francisco. The California Supreme Court justice says the death penalty system in the most populous state is dysfunctional, expensive and doesn't deliver justice in a timely way. Liu made the comments in an unusual opinion issued Thursday, March 28, 2019, after the full court unanimously upheld Thomas Potts' death sentence.
But in a separate opinion in that case, Liu expressed concerns about the death penalty system in California and Proposition 66, a 2016 ballot measure that aimed to remove regulatory hurdles to executions. Its promise that death penalty cases would be completely settled in the courts in five years was "more than the system can deliver," he said.He added that "the promise of justice in our death penalty system is a promise that California has been unable to keep" and a discussion on the effectiveness and cost of capital punishment was overdue.
"The notion that massive additional resources are the answer is a fabrication of the opponents created to bolster their argument that we should repeal the death penalty because it costs too much," he said in an email.
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