SAN FRANCISCO — Ninth Circuit Judge Arthur Alarcón died Wednesday following a 50-year judicial career that was frequently immersed in issues of crime and punishment. He passed away at his home in Pacific Palisades four months after a cancer diagnosis. He was 89.
A longtime Republican appointed to the bench repeatedly by Democrats, Alarcón led a Ninth Circuit panel that cleared the way for the first execution following the resumption of capital punishment in California. As early as the 1960s Alarcón was advising Gov. Edmund Brown Sr. on death penalty issues, and as a judge he worked with the U.S. Judicial Conference on delays in processing capital appeals. Ultimately, he concluded that California’s death penalty system is “a multi-billion dollar debacle” in need of serious reform or abolition.
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