Posted: April 24th, 2012, 10:00pm MSD
[JURIST] An initiative [text, PDF] to repeal California's death penalty [JURIST news archive] qualified Monday for the November ballot after receiving 500,000 signatures. If approved by voters, the Savings, Accountability, and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE California Act) [advocacy website] would overhaul the death penalty system in California. It will not only change all death sentences to a sentence of life without parole, but would also require inmates to work and pay into a victim compensation fund. It would also contribute to funding investigations of unsolved murder and rape cases. The act's supporters also claim that the repeal of...