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Californians Moving Away From Death Penalty Support
   California's death penalty analyzed the recent dramatic shift in public
   opinion on capital punishment in the state. According to Paula
   the death penalty, but the 2012 referendum to repeal the law lost by
   death penalty the most, support for the death penalty was even lower.
   due to several factors. California's death penalty, she said, "is
   capital punishment and the potential for wrongful convictions—issues
California Voters’ Shifting Views on the Death Penalty
   Public support for the death penalty among California voters has
   death penalty. For the last few decades, Field Poll results showed that
   two-thirds of Californians supported the death penalty. In November
   state should replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without
   keep the death penalty.
   Remarkably, voters the largest death penalty counties in California
   state’s death penalty—a margin of 10% more than the state average. And
   sentenced to death, voted to repeal the death penalty by an even wider
   the death penalty in California. First, California’s death penalty
   home to five of the nation’s top ten death penalty counties. In
   November 2012, a proposition that sought to replace the death penalty
   Californians’ views about the death penalty; one that mirrors the
   capital punishment and the potential for wrongful convictions—issues
   L.A. County’s status as the nation’s number one death penalty county
   repealing the death penalty, the District Attorney is presented with a
   decline to continue seeking the death penalty in the county, just as
   Nationally, public support for the death penalty is also declining
   to end capital punishment. Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon has declared a
   conclusion that the death penalty does not work.”
   that he would sign legislation outlawing capital punishment if
   death penalty. Delaware passed repeal legislation through its state
   the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole by a surprising
   abolish the death penalty in Texas will finally have a committee
   lectured extensively on the subject of the death penalty in California.
   Dollar Death Penalty Debacle, 44 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. S41 (2011).
   (P. Mitchell, "California Voters' Shifting Views on the Death Penalty,"
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