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| California Gives Lifeline To Death |
| California Gives Lifeline To Death Penalty, Approves Reform
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 23-November-2016
4:54:21 AM |
| After condemning the most vicious murderers to death for nearly 40 years, but rarely seeing them meet that fate, California voters said enough.
Two weeks after rejecting an effort to toss out the death penalty, a dueling measure designed to speed up appeals so killers are actually executed won a narrow victory Tuesday with 51 percent of support.
In passing Proposition 66, California joined two conservative states in support of capital punishment on Election Day, bucking a pattern of states that have abolished the death penalty in recent years.
"Voters want to ensure that victims' families receive the justice they want and deserve," Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said in a statement. "The reforms outlined in Prop. 66 are smart fixes that will eradicate waste, delays and inefficiencies while protecting due process for all those who are given the ultimate sentence of death."
The ballot initiative was proposed to "mend not end" capital punishment after 52 percent of voters rejected a similar repeal measure in 2012. The repeal effort this year was rejected by 54 percent of voters.
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