{"id":31927,"date":"2012-10-24T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=31927"},"modified":"2012-10-24T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:47:24","slug":"proponents-of-proposition-34-cite-millions-of-dollars-saved-and-the-certainty-of-sparing-innocent-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/10\/24\/proponents-of-proposition-34-cite-millions-of-dollars-saved-and-the-certainty-of-sparing-innocent-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Proponents of Proposition 34 Cite Millions of Dollars Saved, and the Certainty of Sparing Innocent Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest102412\/2012_10_24_minsker.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest102412\/2012_10_24_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/prop34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This November, California may become the 18th state in the nation to ban the death penalty if voters support Proposition 34. Passage of Prop 34 would ensure a life sentence without the possibility of parole not only for those who are awaiting sentencing but also for those people who are currently on death row. Those found guilty of murder would be put to work by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and a portion of their wages would be allocated for victims\u2019 funds. Prop 34 would also establish a $100 million dollar fund for police to expand their investigations into rape and homicide cases.<\/p>\n<p>Death Penalty Focus, is an official sponsor of Yes on 34, and other advocates include the ACLU, former LA District Attorney Gil Garcetti, the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Supporters feel that apart from the moral concerns of state sanctioned executions, there are major financial costs associated with carrying out a death sentence. A 2011 study indicates that California has spent approximately $4 billion to execute 13 people since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978. With Prop 34 California would save millions of dollars by reducing the number of legal and other staff who work solely on death penalty cases. The high costs of maintaining the nation\u2019s largest death row at San Quentin prison would also be eliminated. <\/p>\n<p>There has been a moratorium on using the death penalty in California since 2006 due to \u2018flaws in the execution system\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Natasha Minsker is death penalty policy director of the ACLU of Northern California and campaign manager for the Yes on 34 campaign<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeson34.org\">www.yeson34.org<\/a> for more information about the pro-Prop 34 campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November, California may become the 18th state in the nation to ban the death penalty if voters support Proposition 34. Passage of Prop 34 would ensure a life sentence without the possibility of parole not only for those who are awaiting sentencing but also for those people who are currently on death row. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31955,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions\/31955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}