California votes to speed up ‘broken’ death penalty system

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A measure that aims to expedite long-delayed executions on California’s massive death row has passed.

The Associated Press on Tuesday night projected victory for Proposition 66, which implements strict timelines for inmate appeals to death sentences and removes an administrative barrier to resuming executions. The measure led by more than 250,000 votes, or 51 percent to 49 percent, after two weeks of counting millions of late-arriving mail and provisional ballots.

“Voters want to ensure that victims’ families receive the justice they want and deserve,” Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a supporter of Proposition 66, said in a statement. “It’s time for our opponents and the Legislature to work with us to ensure the death penalty process works as intended.”

A rival initiative, Proposition 62, that sought to abolish the death penalty nearly four decades after it returned to California was soundly defeated on election night.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article116588753.html

CALIFORNIA!  How about that...

[HAPPY2BME]

A measure that aims to expedite long-delayed executions on California’s massive death row has passed.

A rival initiative, Proposition 62, that sought to abolish the death penalty nearly four decades after it returned to California was soundly defeated on election night.

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I am thinking that this guy is not going to like it very much ..

[SVPete]

This is the second or third time CA has voted to reinstate the death penalty or against abolishing it.

[SVPete]

BTW, due to court decisions around the time when he was convicted, Manson is serving a life sentence and is not subject to the death penalty.

[Adam Wood]

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I am thinking that this guy is not going to like it very much ..

Won't affect him either way.  There's "no going back" on his court-ordered commutation to LWOP, unfortunately.  That's a one-way street that dead-ended in the '70s.  The best any of us can hope for now is that he continues to rot in prison until someone finally throws lye over his decaying corpse.

[SVPete]

Won't affect him either way.  There's "no going back" on his court-ordered commutation to LWOP, unfortunately.  That's a one-way street that dead-ended in the '70s.  The best any of us can hope for now is that he continues to rot in prison until someone finally throws lye over his decaying corpse.

I wish his sentence was LWOP. He isn't likely to be alive for his next parole hearing, though.

Edit: Fixed the link.

[Adam Wood]

I wish his sentence was LWOP. He isn't likely to be alive for his next parole hearing, though.

Bum link, but that old bastard should have been shanked in the shower decades ago, AFAIC.