Bid to Speed Death Penalty Appeals Under Fire
Watch out California...
The Senate Judiciary Committee will take up legislation today meant to streamline the death penalty appeals process — something critics fear could lead to the execution of the wrongly convicted.Opposition is mounting to the Streamlined Procedures Act introduced in the Senate by Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and in the House by Dan Lungren (R-Gold River). Concerns come not only from death-penalty opponents but from individuals and groups not often thought of as vocal supporters of the rights of criminal defendants.
Among the critics are the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal group that specializes in religious freedom and antiabortion issues; Bob Barr, the conservative Republican former congressman from Georgia; more than 50 former prosecutors; and more than a dozen former federal judges.
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