US/California: Continue Effort to Halt Death Penalty

California voters’ failure to abolish the death penalty perpetuates a barbaric practice and places the state out of step with national trends (Los Angeles) – California voters’ failure to abolish the death penalty perpetuates a barbaric practice and places the state out of step with national trends, Human Rights Watch said today. Had it passed on November 6, 2012, Proposition 34, the SAFE (Savings, Accountability, and Full Enforcement for) California Act, would have closed down the nation’s largest death row.read more

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