{"id":59,"date":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/proposition-62-death-penalty-initiative-statute-yes\/"},"modified":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"proposition-62-death-penalty-initiative-statute-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/14\/proposition-62-death-penalty-initiative-statute-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"PROPOSITION 62.\u00a0 Death Penalty. Initiative Statute \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0YES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every mainline Protestant denomination, Catholics, and many other faiths oppose the death penalty.\u00a0 The use of capital punishment is sometimes justified Biblically \u2013 \u201can eye for an eye\u201d \u2013 but the greater premise of faith is \u201crestorative justice\u201d that seeks healing and wholeness, not\u00a0 state sponsored violence and vengeance.\u00a0 Two factors come into our deliberation. First, the death penalty falls heavily on people of color while white people convicted of the same crime escape. Second, since 1973 Death Penalty Information Center states that 156 people have been found conclusively innocent. At least two people in other states recently executed left evidence that now shows overwhelmingly that they were innocent.\u00a0 That is blood on society\u2019s hands. Moreover, the victims\u2019 friends and families have no absolute assurance that the real perpetrator is not walking free.\u00a0 There can be no justice and no healing when this remains a powerful possibility. Therefore the appeals process must take time to make sure that those sentenced for capital crimes get every available opportunity to contest their sentencing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The monetary costs to society are enormous.\u00a0 It has cost California $5 billion to execute 13 people since 1978. The emotional costs to survivors is worse since at every turn they need to appear to state their objection to release.
Proposition 62 will change all death sentences, for those already on death row and any new capital cases, into life sentences without the possibility of parole. The perpetrators will never walk the streets again. This is a life sentence, period.\u00a0 Save for exculpatory appeals, the costs of reconsideration will be reduced. This is restorative justice at work.\u00a0 Life without the possibility of parole ends all of our costs and moral uncertainties.\u00a0 It is the essential step to a criminal system that works for everyone.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n
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