Los Angeles district attorney wants to bring back death penalty

Los Angeles’ caller tough-on-crime District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his bureau volition "immediately" statesman seeking the decease punishment — but lone "in the rarest of cases" aft thorough review.

There is simply a statewide moratorium connected superior punishment successful California, but it remains connected the books, and prosecutors tin inactive question to enactment convicts connected decease row.

"I stay unwaveringly committed to the broad and thorough valuation of each peculiar condition execution lawsuit prosecuted successful Los Angeles County, successful consultation with the execution victim’s survivors and with afloat input connected the mitigating and aggravating factors of each case, to guarantee that the punishment sought by the Office is just, fair, fitting, and appropriate," Hochman said successful a connection Tuesday.

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Nathan Hochman astatine the Los Angeles District Attorney candidates forum astatine Pacific Palms Resort.  (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

His bureau volition lone question the decease punishment nether "the astir egregious sets of circumstances," helium said. As portion of the caller policy, defence lawyers volition besides beryllium fixed much opportunities to forestall mitigating evidence.

In September 2023, Hochman's predecessor George Gascon, an hostile of the decease penalty, doubled down aft the ambush execution of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30.

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Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer and District Attorney George Gascon. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Although the execution of a instrumentality enforcement serviceman tin beryllium eligible for superior punishment nether California law, Gascon had banned enactment prosecutors from seeking peculiar condition allegations, including for weapon enhancements and targeting on-duty officers.

Then helium shocked the slain deputy's household by publically announcing helium would not question the decease punishment for fishy Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, 29, due to the fact that it "doesn't service arsenic a deterrent," according to FOX 11 Los Angeles.

Kevin Salazar is seen being taken into custody extracurricular of a location successful Palmdale, California connected suspicion of sidesplitting a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy.  (KEYNEWS.TV)

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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks executions astir the U.S., COVID-19 killed much decease enactment inmates than the authorities has executed implicit the past 3 decades.

California, which hasn't executed a condemned inmate since 2006, has the largest decease enactment colonisation successful the country, according to the nonprofit.