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November, 1972

Death and DecencyCalifornia voters are being asked not only to reinstate the death penalty but to subject themselves to the strongest censorship in the country. Both measures are on the November Presidential ballot in the form of initiatives, and both are designed to either evade or defy U.S. Supreme Court rulings.The obscenity initiative would revise the existing state law to eliminate the "redeeming social importance" test altogether and to give local authorities the power to set wha...