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Calif. Voters Decide To Uphold Death Penalty, Streamline The Process

NPR: California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have abolished the death penalty, and narrowly approved a competing measure designed to streamline the execution process.

Proposition 62, which was opposed by about 56 percent of voters, would have repealed the death penalty for murder and replaced it with life in prison without parole.

On the other hand, supporters of Proposition 66 campaigned under the slogan "mend it, don't end it," as member station KPCC reported. The measure passed with 51 percent of the vote. It "limits death penalty appeals and sets strict timelines for state court rulings in capital cases," as NPR's Richard Gonzales told our Newscast unit.

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