Proposition 34: death penalty, initiative statute  Molly Young |
10/17/2012, 5 p.m.  Proposition 34 would repeal the death
penalty in California and replace it with life in prison without
the chance of parole, and would commute the sentences of those
currently awaiting execution on death row to life in prison
without possibility of parole.  The statute also states that
those found guilty of murder would have to work while in prison
with a portion of their wages deducted and used as restitution
in a fund for crime victims. It would also direct $100 million
to law enforcement agencies for homicide and rape case
investigations.  This initiative emphasizes two goals. It seeks
to avoid mistakenly executing anyone who may later be found
innocent, and seeks to direct the funds that are currently used
in the judicial system for murder cases, and the special
handling of death row inmates into a special fund called the
SAFE California Fund that will give grants to police and sheriff
departments and district attorneys'