Prop. 34:Death Penalty

Repeals death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without parole.

Outcome: Failed

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Yes

Los Angeles Times Jimmy Carter: Op-Ed: Jimmy Carter to California: Yes on Prop. 34 Oct. 28, 2012
The San Bernardino Sun Op-Ed: Death Penalty System Hopelessly Broken Oct. 15, 2012
San Francisco Examiner Editorial: Prop. 34 Considers Fiscal Case Against Costly Death Penalty Oct. 9, 2012
San Jose Mercury News Byron Williams, Contributing Columnist, Oakland Tribune: Op-Ed: Byron Williams: Proposition 34 Makes Great Sense for California Oct. 6, 2012
East Bay Express Joaquin Palomino: Op-Ed: Executing the Death Penalty Oct. 3, 2012
Huffington Post John Dear, Jesuit Priest, Pastor, Activist, Author; John Cusack, Actor: Op-Ed: California's Historic Opportunity to End the Death Penalty Oct. 2, 2012
Los Angeles Times Editorial: Prop. 34 and Death Penalty Dishonesty Sep. 25, 2012
San Jose Mercury News Editorial: Summary of Our Endorsements on State Propositions Sep. 22, 2012
NBC Bay Area Joe Mathews, California Editor, Zocalo Public Square; Fellow, Arizona State University’s Center for Social Cohesion; Co-Author, California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix: Op-Ed: Wait. There's A Death Penalty in California? Sep. 22, 2012
Ventura County Star Editorial: Yes on Prop. 34; Death Penalty in State is Broken Sep. 21, 2012
Huffington Post Franky Carrillo, Exonerated of Murder After 20 Years in Prison: Op-Ed: Proposition 34 and Troy Davis Sep. 21, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial: Yes on Prop. 34, Death Penalty Repeal Sep. 18, 2012
Huffington Post Jeanne Woodford, Official Proponent of Prop. 34 in California, Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus; Former Warden, San Quentin State Prison: Op-Ed: Sacramento Bee Reverses 155-year Stand on Death Penalty, Endorses Prop 34 Sep. 17, 2012
Sacramento Bee Editorial: End the Death Penalty: Yes on Proposition 34 Sep. 14, 2012
Los Angeles Times George Skelton: Op-Ed: It's Time to Dump California's Death Penalty by Passing Prop. 34 Sep. 12, 2012
San Diego Free Press Carolyn Zellander: Op-Ed: Prop 34: “Yes” Means We’ll Never Execute An Innocent Person Sep. 5, 2012
Huffington Post Jeanne Woodford,Official Proponent of Prop. 34; Executive Director, Death Penalty Focus; Former warden, San Quentin State Prison: Op-Ed: 366 Days Down, 68 More to Go Aug. 3, 2012
Watsonville Register-Pajaronian Steve Bankhead, Watsonville Resident; Frequent Contributor to the Register-Pajaronian: Op-Ed: Prop. 34: A Matter of Life and Death July 25, 2012
Take Part Matthew Fleischer: Op-Ed: The Death Penalty Is in the Sights of One Innocent Man June 6, 2012
Los Angeles Times Editorial: Don't Seek the Death Penalty June 5, 2012
Los Angeles Times James S. Liebman, Law Professor, Columbia University; Lead Author, "Los Tocayos Carlos," about Carlos DeLuna's case: Op-Ed: You Can't Fix the Death Penalty June 1, 2012
Los Angeles Times Editorial: Yes on the SAFE California Act May 21, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle LaDoris H. Cordell, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge (Retired): Op-Ed: End Death Penalty, Says Judge May 11, 2012
Miami Herald Fred Grimm: Op-Ed: Dollars and Sense of Capital Punishment May 7, 2012
Huffington Post Jeanne Woodford, Executive director, Death Penalty Focus; Former warden, San Quentin State Prison: Op-Ed: Epic Win: SAFE California Act to Replace the Death Penalty Will Be on the November April 25, 2012
The Atlantic Conor Friedersdorf: Op-Ed: California Voters Should Abolish the Death Penalty in 2012 (Op-Ed) April 24, 2012
Sacramento Bee John Van de Kamp, Former Attorney General of California; Former Los Angeles County District Attorney: Op-Ed: Viewpoints: Death Penalty in California Does Not Make Us Any Safer April 24, 2012
New York Times More Evidence Against the Death Penalty April 12, 2012
Above the Law Christopher Danzig: Op-Ed: Debating the Death Penalty — From Both Sides Now (Op-Ed) April 9, 2012
Los Angeles Times Ron Briggs, Member, Board of Supervisors of El Dorado County: Op-Ed: California's Death Penalty Law: It Simply Does Not Work Feb. 12, 2012
El Reportero Op-Ed: Ballot Initiative to Replace California’s Death Penalty in 2012 Announced Sep. 7, 2011
Stanford Progressive Brandon Payette: Op-Ed: A Broken System: California and the Failed Death Penalty Experiment Jan. 31, 2011

No

Los Angeles Times James A. Ardaiz: Op-Ed: No on Prop. 34: Let the Death Penalty Live Oct. 28, 2012
Orange County Register Editorial: No on Prop. 34 (Repeal of Death Penalty) Oct. 6, 2012
Riverside Press-Enterprise Editorial: Election: No on 34 Oct. 2, 2012
Marysville Appeal-Democrat Editorial: Our View: No on Prop. 34 – Repeal of Death Penalty Sep. 26, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle Debra J. Saunders: Op-Ed: Save the Death Penalty Sep. 21, 2012
San Diego Union-Tribune Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego County District Attorney; Past President, California District Attorneys Association: Op-Ed: Killers Should Stay on Death Row Should the Death Penalty Die? Sep. 16, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle Stephen M. Wagstaffe, San Mateo County district attorney and Marc Klaas, father of murdered 12-year-old Polly Klaas: Op-Ed: Ending Death Penalty Would Fuel Crime Aug. 15, 2012
Socialist Worker Darrell Lomax, an innocent man who has been on death row at San Quentin State Prison in California for over 15 years: Op-Ed: Death Sentence by Another Name April 12, 2012

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