Californians will vote in November on whether to stop using execution as a form of punishment, or reform the legal process leading up to the death sentence. The state of California currently has about 750 people on death row. A lot of them were sentenced to die many years ago, but their cases are still being appealed in the courts. Activists on both sides of the issue agree that the current system needs to be fixed. Two competing ballot measures attempt to do this. Proposition 62 would permanently abolish the death penalty in California. If it became law, death row prisoners would have their sentences changed to life in prison with no possibility of being released. Proposition 66 would try to speed up executions by reforming parts of the appeals process. The changes would set time limits on court appeals and make more lawyers available to dispute death penalty rulings.