What is the effect of Proposition 7 on the punishment of first and second degree murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rosbrugh, E073776 (Cal. App. 2020):
Proposition 7, also known as the Briggs Initiative and approved by voters in 1978, increased the punishment for first and second degree murder by amending section 190.3 (People v. Cooper (2002) 27 Cal.4th 38, 41-42 (Cooper).) "The amendment increased the punishment for first degree murder from an indeterminate term of life imprisonment to a term of 25 years to life, and for second degree murder from a term of five, six, or seven years to 15 years to life in state prison." (Ibid.) The version of section 190 enacted by Proposition 7 read: "Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death, confinement in state prison for life without possibility of parole, or confinement in
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