Death penalty is on the ballot in a few of states

A guard escorts a condemned inmate down a corridor in the East Block

during a media tour of California's Death Row at San Quentin State Prison

in San Quentin, California December 29, 2015

Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters

Nebraska and Oklahoma are voting on measures that would institutionalize capital punishment. In California, there's a proposition to abolish the death penalty… and another that supporters claim would make implementation easier. Robert Dunham is Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, discusses the politics of capital punishment.