Death Sentence Tossed

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled that a man was improperly sentenced to death for murdering two parking lot employees, because the trial court should not have allowed the introduction of evidence that he was a white supremacist. 

The law does not allow the jury to weigh the “offensive and reprehensible nature of defendant’s abstract beliefs in determining whether to impose the death penalty.”

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