Will voters send death penalty to the gallows?

Published November 7, 2016 9:12pm ET



Voters in three states Tuesday will decide the fate of ballot measures on the use of the death penalty.

In California, which has 741 people on death row, more than any other state, competing propositions will be on the ballot. Proposition 62 would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Proposition 66 would speed up the process of executions.

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