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Jan. 25, 2018

Tough Sentencer

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen handles death penalty cases with precedent to guide him.

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Tough Sentencer
Los Angeles County (Los Angeles)

LOS ANGELES — Presiding over death penalty cases for decades, Judge Ronald Coen has sentenced more than 30 people to be executed. None of the sentences have been carried out.

Coen said he isn’t frustrated by that as voters expressed their frustration by approving Proposition 66 in 2016 to speed up the appeals process in death penalty cases.

Instead, Coen is more concerned with making th... (continued)

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