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Proposition 34

California Statewide • 2012 •  Initiative 

Failed

Result: 47.4% yes, 52.6% no

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This ballot measure would have repealed California's death penalty and replaced it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole as the maximum punishment for murder. The measure also would have applied this change retroactively to existing death row inmates.

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