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Voters Approve Parole Reform Measure, Block Death Penalty Repeal

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Governor Jerry Brown's Proposition 57, to give some non-violent felons an earlier opportunity at parole looks to have passed by nearly thirty points. But voters didn't get a behind a measure that would have abolished California's death penalty. San Francisco Public Defender discusses the criminal justice measures on the state ballot.

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