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Los Angeles County sent more people to death row this year than Texas, Florida or any other state in the nation. Death sentences issued across the country this year will reach its lowest level since capital punishment was as reinstated in 1976. Richard Dieter, head of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit database maintained by capital punishment opponents, attributed California’s continued pursuit of death sentences to a lack of public debate about the economics of the policy, which he said costs the state $137 million a year more...

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