Posted on 11/09/2016 9:10:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
California voters on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure to repeal the state’s death penalty, and instead narrowly passed a proposition that aims to amend and expedite it.
The outcome concluded a closely watched ballot race to address what people on both sides of the debate have agreed is a broken system.
Proposition 62, which would have replaced capital punishment for murder with life in prison without parole, garnered 46.1% of the vote.
Proposition 66 intended to speed up executions by designating trial courts to hear petitions challenging death row convictions, limiting successive petitions and expanding the pool of lawyers who could take on death penalty appeals.
It won the approval of 50.9% of voters.
The Associated Press called both races early Wednesday morning.
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Wow.
Only intelligent thing they did, but they so seldom use it they might as well have repelled it.
There are over 700 persons on Calif death row. Some have been there for over 30 years.
The taxpayers have spent ENOUGH money on them. Time to pull the plug.
You mean to let them go?
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