10-23-2016, 01:33 PM
Prop 57 CRIMINAL JUSTICE / TRIALS:
Felony and Juvenile Trial reforms. Increases parole and good behavior opportunities for felons convicted of nonviolent crimes. Allows judges, not prosecutors, to decide whether to try certain juveniles as adults in court.
-- I'm still deliberating on this one.
Props 66 and 62 CRIMINAL JUSTICE / DEATH PENALTY:
-Prop 66 calls for reforming the death penalty conditions, requires death penalty inmates to work and allocate up to 70% of their earnings to victim restitution.
-Prop 62 calls to repeal the death penalty in the state, revokes existing death sentences and changes to life-without-parole, and requires all inmates convicted of capital crimes to work and allocate 60% of their earnings to victim restitution.
--I'm voting for prop 62; repeal the death penalty in the state. It's much more expensive than life-without-parole for the state and the tax-payers, and I don't believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to violent crime/murder. Plus, I only support the death sentence under strict parameters which are much more narrow than those applied by our courts (state and federal).
What's on the ballot in your neck of the woods?
Felony and Juvenile Trial reforms. Increases parole and good behavior opportunities for felons convicted of nonviolent crimes. Allows judges, not prosecutors, to decide whether to try certain juveniles as adults in court.
-- I'm still deliberating on this one.
Props 66 and 62 CRIMINAL JUSTICE / DEATH PENALTY:
-Prop 66 calls for reforming the death penalty conditions, requires death penalty inmates to work and allocate up to 70% of their earnings to victim restitution.
-Prop 62 calls to repeal the death penalty in the state, revokes existing death sentences and changes to life-without-parole, and requires all inmates convicted of capital crimes to work and allocate 60% of their earnings to victim restitution.
--I'm voting for prop 62; repeal the death penalty in the state. It's much more expensive than life-without-parole for the state and the tax-payers, and I don't believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to violent crime/murder. Plus, I only support the death sentence under strict parameters which are much more narrow than those applied by our courts (state and federal).
What's on the ballot in your neck of the woods?