Commentary: California halted executions, now it should abolish the death penalty

It has been five years since California voters approved Proposition 66, a measure that ostensibly was going to speed up the time between handing down a death sentence and an execution. But as a practical matter, nothing has really changed. In fact, it has been 15 years since California last executed someone, leaving us with a death row population of nearly 700 people, none of whom face execution in the foreseeable future.

So much for the fix that death penalty advocates promised.