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Features

Jul. 1, 2009

Too Costly to Kill?

Sixty-five percent of Californians still favor the death penalty. But that doesn’t mean we can afford it.


With the recent abolition of the death penalty in both New Jersey and New Mexico, in favor of life imprisonment without parole, California activists are looking for new ammunition with which to challenge the state's death penalty. Their task is formidable, because any change in California's death penalty law would require a vote of the people, and recent polls show support for th...

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