SACRAMENTO — A year ago voters rejected a ballot initiative to end the death penalty in California. But does that mean they are willing now to reinvigorate and speed up the state’s moribund system of capital punishment?
A coalition of victim advocacy groups, law enforcement organizations and prosecutors is betting that the answer is yes. On Thursday, members of those groups filed a proposed November 2014 ballot initiative that calls for shortening the period between conviction and execution by, in part, shifting some legal work to the state appellate courts.
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