AHF President Michael Weinstein, the main driver behind Prop 60-and the man who would be the state’s first porn czar-has also repeatedly petitioned the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) to make condoms in porn a requirement of state workplace-safety regulations; Cal/OSHA voted against such a rule again last February.
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As a result, prescription drug purchase agreements between drug manufacturers and specific agencies often contain confidentiality clauses meant to prohibit public disclosure of the agreed-upon prices.
One such ad, featuring J&J CEO Alex Gorsky, noted that his salary previous year was $23.8 million, and said the company in 2013 paid $2.2 billion “to settle criminal charges of illegally promoting the improper use of its anti-psychotic drug Risperdal for use by elderly patients despite studies that showed the drug increases risk of stroke and diabetes”. “The most heinous criminals sit on death row for 30 years, with endless appeals delaying justice and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions”.
The pharmaceutical industry will be closely watching a different tight election race today – a California drug price referendum that has drawn $109 million in opposition funding and could have ripple effects beyond the state if it passes. “It isn’t as if we are a bunch of random people running around having sex without condoms”.
Currently Nebraska has 10 death-row inmates, but since 1976 only three have been executed, and none in the past 18 years. The measure is promoted by opponents of Proposition 67, which would enact a statewide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags and require a fee for paper and thicker plastic bags used at checkout.
But California, famously liberal and trend-setting, is in an usual position.
The state’s legislature voted to abandon the death penalty despite Gov. Pete Ricketts’ vow to veto that measure. But the more likely outcome is that neither will pass. In an October editorial opposing the measure, the LA Times’ editorial board argued that the proposition was short-sighted.
Potential lawsuits and other what if arguments from opponents didnt deter Sacramento-based OConnor from voting yes by mail on Prop 61. Overall, though, support for the death penalty has fallen since peaking in the mid-1990s. State executioners also failed to properly inject Lockett, and he eventually died of a heart attack 45 minutes after the execution began.
In between all of this, the Supreme Court took up a challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal injection procedure, one that largely focused on the state’s use of the sedative midazolam. That number (which includes $17 million of debt carried on the No/Prop. 61 books) was gleefully seized on by Sanders as both a rallying cry for the gathering and as a reminder that the significance of the measure’s passage will reverberate far beyond whatever cost savings might be realized by affected state programs.
Read the Secretary of State Voter Guide for Proposition 62 here.
Prop 62 would apply retroactively to people already sentenced to death, and would require prisoners serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for murder to work while in prison. Days later Gov. Pete Ricketts vetoed the legislation, but state lawmakers overrode the governor.
A vote for “Retain” means keeping the legislation and eliminating the death penalty while a vote for “Repeal” will do away with the bill and keep capital punishment. Federal Election Commission decision.
Carrillo said the legal system “failed me, and I was wrongfully convicted”, but that he was lucky to have “good people came to my rescue – good lawyers, good advocates”.
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The main lesson, though, has to do with public opinion about the death penalty, which is much more nuanced than media coverage generally reflects.
