Death Penalty Damage Control NBC Los Angeles - Prop Zero, Nov. 4, 2011
... th penalty and, thus, underscored the political risks for candidates who oppose it. Most recently, SB 490, to eliminate the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole, was pulled from the legislative calendar by its author, Sen. Loni Hancoc ...
Is it Time for a Death Penalty Initiative? Calitics - Calitics weblog, Aug. 29, 2011
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AM Alert: Death penalty opponents launch ballot initiative Sacramento Bee - Capitol Alert, Aug. 29, 2011
... st Thursday when she didn't have the votes to get it out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. SB 490 passed the Senate 39-0 in June. The lone lawmaker who didn't vote in the upper house was Sen. Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster. A Field Poll last year found that 70 percent of Cali ...
Bill to close California's death row stalled until 2012 Bay Area News Group - East Bay - The Oakland Tribune, Aug. 26, 2011
... punishment with life prison terms. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she agreed to turn her SB490 into a two-year bill when she realized she didn't have the nine votes she needed to get her bill out of the 17-member Assembly Appropriations Committee to a vote by the full ...
Bill to close California's death row stalled until 2012 Bay Area News Group - East Bay, Aug. 26, 2011
... punishment with life prison terms. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she agreed to turn her SB490 into a two-year bill when she realized she didn't have the nine votes she needed to get her bill out of the 17-member Assembly Appropriations Committee to a vote by the full ...
Bill to close California's death row stalled until 2012 San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 26, 2011
... punishment with life prison terms. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she agreed to turn her SB490 into a two-year bill when she realized she didn't have the nine votes she needed to get her bill out of the 17-member Assembly Appropriations Committee to a vote by the full ...
Bill to close California's death row stalled until 2012 San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 26, 2011
... punishment with life prison terms. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she agreed to turn her SB490 into a two-year bill when she realized she didn't have the nine votes she needed to get her bill out of the 17-member Assembly Appropriations Committee to a vote by the full ...
Bill to close California's death row stalled until 2012 San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 26, 2011
... punishment with life prison terms. State Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said she agreed to turn her SB490 into a two-year bill when she realized she didn't have the nine votes she needed to get her bill out of the 17-member Assembly Appropriations Committee to a vote by the full ...
Proposal to repeal death penalty lacks support San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 26, 2011
... forward because of a lack of support in the Legislature, the measure's author announced Thursday. SB490 by Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, was introduced in June following the release of a study that found the state is paying $184 million more a year to keep people on death row than ...