Does international law prohibit the execution of a person on death row?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Clark, 203 Cal.Rptr.3d 407, 372 P.3d 811, 63 Cal.4th 522 (Cal. 2016):
International law does not prohibit a sentence of death rendered in accordance with state and federal constitutional and statutory requirements. (People v. Friend (2009) 47 Cal.4th 1, 90, 97 Cal.Rptr.3d 1, 211 P.3d 520.)
Factors (a), (b), and (i) of section 190.3 are not unconstitutionally vague. (People v. Williams (1997) 16 Cal.4th 153, 267, 66 Cal.Rptr.2d 123, 940 P.2d 710.)
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