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Prop. 34 and Seeking to End the Death Penalty

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Proposition 34 on the November ballot would end the death penalty in California and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. If passed, Prop. 34 would reverse another ballot measure, Prop. 7, which voters passed in 1978. We talk with Sacramento attorney Don Heller, who wrote that voter initiative at the request of then-State Senator John Briggs.

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