Los Angeles’ new difficult crime Public Prosecutor Nathan Hochman Said that his office “immediately” will start looking for the death penalty – but only “in the rarest things” after thorough assessment.
There is a whole state of moratorium about the death penalty in California, but it remains in the books and prosecutors can still try to put convicted people in the death cell.
“I remain unwavering to the extensive and thorough evaluation of every special murder case in Los Angeles County, in consultation with the survivors of the murder victim and with full input about the mitigating and exacerbating factors of every case, to ensure that the punishment sought by the office simply, honest, law and appropriate,” Hochman Dids.
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Nathan Hochman at the Los Angeles District Attorney Candidates Forum in Pacific Palms Resort. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
His office will only look for the death penalty under ‘the most Egregious sets of circumstances,’ he said. As part of the new policy, lawyers will also get more opportunities to prevent evidence.
In September 2023, Hochman’s predecessor George Gascon, an opponent of the death penalty, doubled after the ambulance murder of the deputy of Los Angeles County Sheriff Ryan Clinkunbroomer30.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer and public prosecutor George Gascon. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty images)
Although the murder of a law enforcement officer can be eligible for the death penalty according to the California law, Gascon had forbidden the prosecutors of the line to seek accusations of special circumstances, including for arms improvements and the focus of officers.
Then he shocked the family of the killed deputy by publicly announcing that he would not look for the death penalty for suspect Kevin Eduardo Cataneo Salazar, 29, because it is “not as a deterrent”, “said Fox 11 Los Angeles.
Kevin Salazar is seen in custody outside a house in Palmdale, California on suspicion of killing a deputy of Los Angeles County Sheriff. (Keynews.tv)
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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, which follows executions around the US, COVID-19 has killed more prisoners in the death cell than the state has executed over the past three decades.
California, which has not executed a prisoner since 2006, has the largest population in the death cell in the country, according to the non -profit.
