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Guest opinion: The death penalty: End it, don't try to 'mend' it

Original post made on Sep 21, 2016

There are two initiatives on the November ballot pertaining to the death penalty. Briefly, one is to replace the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole, and is retroactive to those sentenced to death (Proposition 62). The other initiative seeks to "...mend, not end..." the death penalty (Proposition 66).

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Posted by Tommy
a resident of another community
on Sep 21, 2016 at 10:34 am

Let's not forget the cost too, "In California, incarceration costs for death penalty prisoners totaled more than $1 billion from 1978 to 2011 (total costs outside of incarceration were another $3 billion)."
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Posted by WWJD?
a resident of Menlo Park: Menlo Oaks
on Sep 21, 2016 at 12:07 pm

I'm with the Big JC on this one - no state-sanctioned murder.

Funny that those who insist that government take lives are oft the same folk who claim government is always wrong.

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Posted by Electric man
a resident of Menlo Park: Stanford Hills
on Sep 21, 2016 at 5:09 pm

How about the chance that we convicted the wrong person and took their life in error. New evidence has cleared 156 death row inmates so far.

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