Perspective
Jun. 22, 2011
Taking the Initiative: The Role of Voters in California’s Death Penalty Debacle
When California voters went to the polls in 1978 to decide whether to reinstitute capital punishment, what were they thinking? By Paula Mitchell of Loyola Law School
It is 1978. The state Supreme Court has recently abolished the death penalty, ruling it unconstitutional. California voters head to the polls to decide whether to reinstitute capital punishment. Dan Pollster conducts an exit poll.
Pollster to Voter: How did you vote on Proposition 7, the death penalty initiative?
Voter: I voted in favor of it because the Voter Information Guide here says that this new la...
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