LA District Attorney Steve Cooley is more than impatient about the death penalty in California. The population of death row is 725, and there's been no execution since 2006. Voters will be asked to repeal capital punishment in November, but Cooley wants executions right now. He's gone to yet another court asking that the one-drug procedure be implemented now.
Can LA's District Attorney Dust Off the Death Penalty?
Credits
Guests:
- Steve Cooley - former Los Angeles District Attorney
- Don Heller - Attorney
- Emily T. Green - freelance reporter based in Mexico City - @emilytgreen