Naast de verkiezing van een president en Senaatsleden, konden in Californië mensen ook stemmen voor het afschaffen van de doodstraf.
Tevens was er een optie om de procedure voorafgaand aan de uitvoering van de doodstraf te versnellen.
Het afschaffen van de doodstraf heeft het helaas niet gehaald, de kans dat de tweede optie het haalt is groter.
California voters on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure to repeal the state’s death penalty, while a measure that would expedite and amend the death penalty process narrowly leads with more ballots left to be counted.
The final outcome will conclude a closely watched ballot race to address what people on both sides of the debate have agreed is a broken system.
Proposition 62, which would have replaced capital punishment for murder with life in prison without parole, garnered 46.1% of the vote.
Proposition 66 intended to speed up executions by designating trial courts to hear petitions challenging death row convictions, limiting successive petitions and expanding the pool of lawyers who could take on death penalty appeals.
With all precincts reporting, it currently has the approval of 50.9% of voters, but provisional and other ballots remain to be counted.
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