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Death Penalty
Reform Proponents Switch Focus To 2016
(Sacramento, CA)-Californians for
Death Penalty Reform and Savings, a coalition of law enforcement, prosecutors
and crime victims announced today that they will not seek to qualify the
proposed death penalty reform initiative for the November 2014 ballot, and
instead plan to qualify the initiative for the November 2016 ballot.
The initiatives proponent Kermit
Alexander, whose mother, sister and two young nephews were murdered in 1984 by
a gang member who is still serving on death row, issued the following
statement:
“Our polling indicates that
Californians from all walks of life overwhelmingly support an initiative that
will end the unnecessary delay in executions for the state’s worst
murderers. Over the next two years we will reach out to voters to educate
them on our initiative and how these common sense changes will fix a broken
system bringing justice to victims and accountability where none exists
today. We will take this time to broaden our coalition, raise the funds
and gather the necessary signatures well in advance of the 2016 election.”
The initiative makes several major
changes in California’s death penalty process, ranging from the appointment of
attorneys for appeals to the method of execution. The objective is to
remove at least a decade of unnecessary delay from the time between the trial,
sentencing and a murderer’s execution. It currently takes over 20 years
and in some cases far longer to carry out the execution of a murderer whose
guilt is not in dispute.
“Other states carry out executions
five to ten years after conviction, without sacrificing anyone’s constitutional
rights. There is no good reason for Californians to put up with the
decades and millions in tax dollars wasted by our state in order to deliver
justice for the very worst criminals,” said Alexander. “We have the
blueprint to fix this and we are going to implement that blueprint in 2016.”
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