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Hear from the people working to pass Prop 34. People like Franky Carrillo, an innocent man who spent 20 years behind bars, and Don Heller, the prosecutor who created California's death penalty law in 1978, and Jeanne Woodf...

Prop 34 ensures we will NEVER execute an innocent person and will save $1 billion in five years.

Franky Carrillo pasó 20 años en prisión por un asesinato que no cometió. Con la pena de muerte, siempre se corre el riesgo de ejecutar a una persona inocente. Un SÍ a la 34 asegura que nunca ejecutaremos a una persona inoc...

Franky Carrillo spent 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. With the death penalty, we always run the risk of executing an innocent person. A YES on 34 vote ensures we never execute and innocent person by rep...

Bishop Mathes spoke in a press conference on October 2, 2012 urging people to vote yes on Prop 34. Sister Helen Prejean and other religious leaders...

California's death penalty is costly, broken beyond repair, and risks executing an innocent person. Vote YES on Prop 34 this November to replace the death penalty in California with a sentence of life in prison with absol...

Jeanne Woodford is a former Warden of San Quentin who oversaw four executions. She's voting YES on 34.

Franky was sentenced to prison at age 16 for a murder he did not commit, and was found innocent after spending 20 years behind bars. He shares why he's voting YES on 34.

Lorraine Taylor, mother to twin boys, Albade and Obadiah, who were gunned down in 2000 at the age of 22, shares why she is voting YES on Prop 34.

Prop 34 is supported by victims like Rose Steward whose attacker now sits on death row in California. Campaign Manager Natasha Minsker explains why YES on 34 to replace the death penalty with life in prison without parole ...

Did you know that housing on death row actually costs MORE than housing prisoners under a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole? Jeanne Woodford, former warden of death row and head of California Corrections,...

At 19 years old I was tried and convicted for murder even though I was innocent. The District Attorney wanted to sentence me to death. Thankfully, he eventually dropped the request to seek the death penalty and I was sente...

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, "Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?"

We knew the answer: No.

I worked in corrections for 30 y...

On March 14, 2011, the Los Angeles County Superior Court reversed a conviction and ordered the release of Francisco "Franky" Carrillo Jr. after two decades behind bars. At 16, Franky was wrongfully convicted of the 1991 m...

On March 28, 2011, after more than 20 years in prison, Mr. Caldwell was released from San Francisco County Jail after San Francisco Superior Court ...

Judy Kerr's brother, Bob Kerr, was killed in 2003. During this traumatic time, Ms. Kerr needed grief counseling for her family and herself, and she needed to know who killed her brother.

Darryl served as a Deputy District Attorney of the Alameda County District Attorney's Office from 1992 - 2007. When his boss asked him whether he would take what would be a career-making case and argue for a defendant's ex...

In March 2012, Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, gave a speech on TED entitled, "We need to talk about an injustice."

Tom Parker, former FBI agent, tells California voters why he supports SAFE California.

Former LA District Attorney Gil Garcetti explains why he is a supporter of the SAFE California initiative to replace the death penalty with life without parole.

Lorrain Taylor, a mother whose twin sons were murdered, explains why she supports Prop 34.