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California Democratic Party Platform: Repeal

By Steve Hall

Bob Egelko reports, "Dems want to scrap death penalty in California," on the front page of today's San Francisco Chronicle. The California Democratic Party is calling for abolition of the death penalty, defying conventional political wisdom and raising an issue that its candidate for governor might prefer to avoid. Democratic leaders have previously passed resolutions opposing capital punishment, but the party says its records indicate it has never enshrined the position in its platform - the formal statement of its principles - until this year. The platform, approved April 18 at the party's convention in Los Angeles, includes a declaration that Democrats will "replace the death penalty with a term of permanent incarceration, which will serve to protect the public, provide swift and certain justice for victims' families, and save the state an estimated $1 billion over the next five years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).