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Voters Could Have Say on Death Penalty as Death Row Backs Up

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California last executed a death row inmate exactly 10 years ago this Sunday. On the state's death row right now sit 745 people. Californians are split right down the middle over whether to speed up these executions or stop them completely. That's according to a new survey out Friday from the Field Poll. Come November, voters might have a say on how to fix the system as there are two very different ballot measures in the works.

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