And in early March, he took to House floor to encourage his colleagues to support his bill to abolish in his home state — the fruit of about six years of work in the Legislature, Democratic lawmaker said, and one that comes 21 years since he sponsored his first piece of legislation aimed at repeal... ..…

Even in solidly Democratic California, voters in 2016 rejected a ballot initiative to end the death penalty and instead approved one to expedite executions. . ... Bill Whalen, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who once advised Pete Wilson, a Republican former governor of..…