California could restart executions
By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee
California’s death row has ballooned to nearly 750 inmates and the state hasn’t executed a murderer in more than 12 years.
That could change soon.
California voters in 2016 approved Proposition 66, which attempted to remove regulatory hurdles to executions.
Among the 35 largest counties in the state, Kings, Riverside, Shasta and El Dorado counties have the highest rates of death row inmates per 1,000 homicides. The lowest rates were in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Merced and Solano counties.