The Epoch Times Article RatingCalifornia Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overhaul Death Penalty
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-88% Very Left
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-59% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
45% : He wrote that the death penalty might be fairer if the state did make changes, noting that the state attorney general's office also agreed that such a requirement "would improve our system of capital punishment and make it even more reliable" and that state lawmakers should consider the change.45% : Criminal Justice Legal Foundation Legal Director Kent Scheidegger, who wrote a brief supporting the death penalty, welcomed the unanimous decision from the state's highest court.
40% : Approximately 39 percent of participants said they oppose the death penalty, including 15 percent in strong opposition.
39% : While there is currently a moratorium on the death penalty in California from Gov. Gavin Newsom, it only lasts as long as he is in office, and many cases can take 25 years to fully prosecute.
39% : President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is the first sitting U.S. president to openly oppose the death penalty.
38% : In written arguments to the court, Newsom, a Democrat, called for changes to be made in how the death penalty is enforced, arguing that the system discriminates against black and Latino defendants.
37% : According to a nationwide poll from Pew Research Center released in June, 60 percent of 5,109 American adults who participated backed the death penalty as a punishment for murder, with 27 percent in strong favor.
26% : Former President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed support for capital punishment and restarted the practice at the federal level last year after a 17-year hiatus.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
