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Government

Nov. 8, 2012

Voters' preservation of death penalty leaves challenges

California currently has more prisoners on death row than any other state in the nation. And following Tuesday's vote to preserve capital punishment here, that's unlikely to change anytime soon.



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By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California has more prisoners on death row than any other state in the nation. And following Tuesday's vote to preserve capital punishment here, that's unlikely to change anytime soon.


Proposition 34, which would have repealed the death penalty and replaced it with life in prison without the possibility of parole, lost 47.2 percent to 52.8 percent, accordi...

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