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Proposition 83: Sex Offenders and the November Elections
Governor Schwarzenegger has signed a package of new laws cracking down on sex offenders in California. Prop 83 would crack down even more. Would it make children safer? What would it cost? We hear the pros and cons. Plus, an update on the raging Day Fire, and can the death penalty cause pain and still be humane?
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenGovernor Schwarzenegger has signed a package of new laws cracking down on sex offenders in California.Prop 83 would crack down even more.Would it make children safer?What would it cost?We hear the pros and cons.Plus, an update on the raging Day Fire, and can the death penalty cause pain and still be humane?
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3 storiesDay Fire Defies Firefighters
More than 4000 firefighters are eating and sleeping in tent cities as they try to control one of the biggest and longest-burning brush fires in California history. The Day Fire , in Ventura County's Los Padres National Forest, has been burning since Labor Day. More than 159,000 acres have been charred and 18 structures destroyed.
Read the story4 minProposition 83: Sex Offenders and the November Elections
There are 90,000 registered sex offenders in California, and current law says they can't live near schools while they're on parole. If they're high risk, they have to be monitored with electronic devices. The most dangerous can be committed to mental hospitals after serving their prison terms.
Read the story14 minAre Executions Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
In San Jose yesterday, an anesthesiologist from Columbia Medical School said convicts executed by lethal injection in California may have been conscious and suffered excruciating pain.
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