Some political analysts in California have noted a glaring lack of conversation surrounding the moral implications of either accelerating the death penalty (Proposition 66) or repealing it altogether (Proposition 62).

That could be because the proponents of repealing the death penalty are appealing instead to economic sensibility.

In 1978, the death penalty was reinstated in California.  Since then, only 13 out of more than a thousand inmates on death row have been executed.  Proponents of repealing the initiative say the state has poured $5 billion dollars into maintaining death row since 1978.