Does the death penalty have to be used as a deterrent to the crime of robbery?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Banks, 189 Cal.Rptr.3d 208, 351 P.3d 330, 61 Cal.4th 788 (Cal. 2015):

course of a robbery were so substantial that one should share the blame for the killing if he somehow participated in the felony. But competent observers have concluded that there is no basis in experience for the notion that death so frequently occurs in the course of a felony for which killing is not an essential ingredient that the death penalty should be considered as a justifiable deterrent to the felony itself." ( Enmund v. Florida, supra, 458 U.S. at p. 799, 102 S.Ct. 3368.)

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