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UC Berkeley School of Law
Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and founding director of Berkeley Law's Death Penalty Clinic, a litigation group that represents death penalty clients nationwide
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Elisabeth Semel
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FROM Elisabeth Semel
Which Way, L.A.?
Is There a Way – and the Will -- to Resume Executions in California? This week, by a vote of five to four, the US Supreme Court approved part of a three-drug cocktail used for executions in Oklahoma. Under a legal settlement, Governor Brown how has 120 days to propose a way to implement the death penalty in California. There has not been an execution for nine years, and death row is crowded with 750 people. Maura Dolan covers legal affairs for the Los Angeles Times .
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