IPFS News Link • Death Penalty
Seeking an End to an Execution Law They Once Championed
• New York TimesThe year was 1978, and the California ballot bristled with initiatives
for everything from banning gay teachers to cracking down on indoor
smoking. Both lost. But one, Proposition 7, sailed through: expanding
the state’s death penalty law to make it among the toughest and most
far-reaching in the country.