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California Voters Will Decide Fate Of Death Penalty

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California voters can kill the death penalty or resuscitate it.

Voters faced dueling measures Tuesday that would either repeal capital punishment and replace it with life in prison without parole or speed it up so condemned murderers are actually executed.

Supporters of both measures agree the current system does not work. More than 900 convicted killers have been sent to death row since 1978, but only 13 have been executed in the state.

The last execution by lethal injection was more than a decade ago.

Repeal supporters say Proposition 62 would save $150 million and eliminate the chance of someone innocent being executed.

Reform proponents say the most evil killers would die and family members of victims would get justice under Proposition 66.

 

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.

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