News Stories

• Univisión: A los 16 años de edad, Francisco Carrillo fue acusado de un crimen que no cometió November 6  |  Univisión
• The Daily Californian: Yes on Prop. 34 November 6  |  The Daily Californian
• New York Times: End the Death Penalty in California November 6
• Skelton: Last-minute advice on state ballot measures November 4  |  Los Angeles Times The columnist's take on 11 propositions for voters heading to the polls Tuesday.
• Death-penalty measure's support jumps November 1  |  SF Gate A ballot measure to repeal California's death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole has gained support in the last week and leads by 45 to 38 percent among likely voters in the final Field Poll before Tuesday's election.
• Fox and Hounds: Why Conservatives Like Bill O’Reilly and Me Support Proposition 34 October 25  |  Fox and Hounds
• Los Angeles Times: Support for end to California death penalty surges October 26  |  Los Angeles Times
• Chico News Review: Kill the Death Penalty October 19  |  Chico News Review
• Sacramento News and Review: Proposition 34: Yes October 19  |  Sacramento News and Review
• Death Penalty for Jesus October 15  |  Sojourners
• Should we OK Prop. 34 to end executions? Yes. October 14  |  Sacramento Bee
• Los Angeles Daily News: Endorsement: No to the death penalty -- Put California's costly and ineffective system to rest by voting yes on Proposition 34 October 10  |  Los Angeles Daily News
• Dallas Morning News: Hoping for California Death Penalty Repeal October 12  |  Dallas Morning News
• San Jose Inside: Yes on Prop. 34 October 12  |  San Jose Inside
• Wall Street Journal: Death Penalty Costs Get Close Look October 6  |  Wall Street Journal
• Skelton: It's time to dump California's death penalty by passing Prop. 34 September 12  |  Los Angeles Times
• The San Bernardino Sun: Proposition 34: Death penalty costly, doesn't work; end it October 11
• Yes on 34: Error-prone death penalty is too costly October 10  |  The Reporter
• Pacific Sun Endorsements: Yes on Prop. 34 October 9  |  Pacific Sun
• Palo Alto Takes a Stand Against the Death Penalty October 10  |  Palo Alto Online
• Press Democrat: Time to Put an End to the Death Penalty September 30  |  Press Democrat
• Prop. 34 Considers Fiscal Case Against Costly Death Penalty October 9  |  SF Examiner
• It's time to dump California's death penalty by passing Prop. 34 October 10  |  Los Angeles Times
• California's Historic Opportunity to End the Death Penalty October 2
• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Yes on 34 will end charade September 27
• Los Obispos de California Apoyan La Propocisión 34 September 27
• California Bishops Support Prop. 34 to End the Use of the Death Penalty September 27
• LA Times: The dishonest campaign against Proposition 34 September 25  |  LA Times
• Bethany Webb: Yes on 34 September 25  |  OC Register
• Ventura County Star: Yes on Prop. 34, Death penalty in state is broken September 24
• La Opinión: Sí a la Proposición 34 September 24
• El Mensajero: Sí a la Proposición 34 September 23  |  El Mensajero
• San Francisco Chronicle: Yes on Prop. 34, Death Penalty Repeal September 19
• Sacramento Bee: End the death penalty: Yes on Proposition 34 September 14
• Sacramento Bee: Death penalty Texas style? No, thank you. September 14
• Sacramento Bee: Death penalty deters murders? Evidence doesn't bear that out. September 14
• Sacramento Bee: Death penalty is applied unevenly statewide September 14
• Sacramento Bee: Time to end the fiction of California's death penalty September 12
• Paradise Post: It's Time to End the Death Penalty August 29
• California National Organization for Women Endorses Prop. 34! August 23
• Former DA of Los Angeles: End Death Penalty for Dollars and Sense August 21  |  SF Chronicle
• SF Bay Guardian: The Cost of the Death Penalty August 21  |  SF Bay Guardian
• Desert Sun: California voters have the opportunity to end the state's rediculously inefficient death penalty system and invest some of the savings to help solve major crimes. August 21  |  Desert Sun
• SF Chronicle Politics Blog: Ex-justice who supports death penalty backs measure to abolish it August 7  |  SF Chronicle Politics Blog
• Oakland Tribune editorial: California's death penalty is archaic, unfairly applied and fiscally insane. August 7  |  Oakland Tribune
• Contra Costa Times editorial: California's death penalty has got to go. August 7  |  Contra Costa Times
• Mercury News editorial: California should end barbaric, costly death penalty July 31  |  San Jose Mercury News
• SAFE California: The political battle over a ballot initiative that would end capital punishment in California is centered on victims July 2  |  KPCC
• Victimas alzan la voz June 27  |  Estrella TV Noticias
• Demonstrators Gather at Rally Opposing the Death Penalty June 27  |  KTLA
• The Death Penalty Is in the Sights of One Innocent Man June 6  |  TakePart
• Don't seek the death penalty June 5  |  LA Times
• You can't fix the death penalty June 1  |  LA Times
• More than 2,000 wrongfully convicted people exonerated in 23 years, researchers say May 21  |  CNN
• Will California’s Death Penalty Live or Die? May 21  |  TakePart
• Yes on the SAFE California Act May 21  |  LA Times
• Texas executed wrong man, report claims May 14  |  Chron.com
• End death penalty, says judge May 12  |  San Francisco Chronicle (Letter to the Editor)
• A Cast Of Converts Rallies Around Death Penalty Repeal May 8  |  Neon Tommy
• Dollars and sense of capital punishment May 7  |  The Miami Herald
• California death penalty on November ballot May 4  |  Politico
• Ex-Director de la prisión dirige la iniciativa SAFE para anular la pena de muerte en California May 1  |  Catholic Mobilizing Network
• Declaración de los Obispos de California en la Clasificación de la Iniciativa de “SAFE California” May 1  |  California Catholic Conference
• Statement from California Bishops Upon Qualification of the SAFE California Initiative May 1  |  California Catholic Conference
• Obispo Flores: La Pena de Muerte No es Justicia April 25  |  Catholic Mobilizing Network
• Death penalty is not justice April 25  |  Union Tribune San Diego
• Shifts detected in support for death penalty April 24  |  USA TODAY
• California vote could remove one-quarter of nation's death row April 24  |  msnbc.com
• Viewpoints: Death penalty in California does not make us any safer April 24  |  Sacramento Bee (Op-Ed)
• Buyer's Remorse on the Death Penalty in California April 7  |  Daily Kos
• Seeking an End to an Execution Law They Once Championed April 6  |  New York Times
• Death Penalty Can’t be Fixed, Time to Replace March 27  |  Fox & Hounds Donald H. Heller, former Assistant U.S. Attorney & Ron Briggs, El Dorado County Supervisor
• First, abolish the death penalty March 12  |  Los Angeles Times The so-called SAFE California Act's goal of abolishing the death penalty is the right one.
• Death penalty decisions for L.A.'s next D.A. April 2  |  Los Angeles Times L.A. County sent more people to death row in 2009 than Texas. It's a key issue in this race.
• Bishops Salute "Safe California" Campaign March 1
• Can We Kill the Death Penalty? February 25  |  Santa Monica Mirror
• Death penalty serves no one, it should be replaced in California February 24  |  Oakland Tribune
• SAFE California Initiative seeks shift on death penalty February 14  |  89.3 KPCC Ron Briggs originally sponsored the 1978 initiative to expand the number of crimes punishable by death now supports the SAFE California Initiative.
• California's death penalty law: It simply does not work February 12  |  Los Angeles Times
• California bishops back signature drives on death penalty, abortion January 18  |  Catholic News Service
• California's chief justice: 'Life without means life without' January 10  |  Los Angeles Times
• The chief justice, the death penalty and the 'worst possible option' January 9  |  Los Angeles Times
• Letters to the Editor -- Los Angeles Times January 9  |  Los Angeles Times Re "Unusual but not cruel," Opinion, Jan. 3
• No death penalty ‘fix’ January 4  |  The Record Searchlight
• Ending the death penalty -- a dollars and sense decision December 30  |  Los Angeles Times
• PD Editorial: Weighing cost, effectiveness of death penalty December 28  |  Press Democrat
• Death penalty, by the numbers December 26  |  Los Angeles Times
• California executions remain in everlasting limbo December 26  |  Mercury News
• CA's top judge: Death penalty no longer effective Associated Press December 24  |  Mercury News
• California chief justice urges reevaluating death penalty December 24  |  Los Angeles Times
• Death Penalty Death Watch: California December 21  |  The New York Times
• California Lethal Injections December 21  |  The New York Times
• States push to end the death penalty December 9  |  Politico
• Death penalty cases not a smart use of limited funds November 10  |  LA Daily News
• Murder Victim Mom Against the Death Penalty October 31  |  California Progress Report
• Resumption of executions would not slash death penalty costs October 22  |  Contra Costa Times
• A California Republican against death penalty September 18  |  LA Daily News
• California's death penalty and public safety August 5  |  San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• Repeal the death penalty July 14  |  Capitol Journal
• California’s death penalty punishes taxpayers, not killers July 5  |  The Sacramento Bee
• Death penalty costs California $184 million a year, study says June 20  |  Los Angeles Times
• Second thoughts of a 'hanging judge' May 25  |  Los Angeles Times
• Without death penalty, we'd have funds to treat mental illness August 24  |  San Jose Mercury News
• One father's message to another January 26  |  LA Daily News
• Death row realism: Do executions make us safer? San Quentin's former warden says no October 2  |  Los Angeles Times