Stike Out Three Strikes

Last year in California voters approved a controversial ballot initiative.
Proposition 184, also known as the three strikes and you're out law, was passed on
November 9, 1994. Under this new legislation repeat offenders, upon committing their
third felony offense, will be sentenced to a mandatory twenty-five years to life in
prison(California 667). The initiative passed by a landslide, with 76% of the voters in
favor of it. The State Senate soon after voted the bill into law, with only seven members
voting against it. The three strikes initiative stemmed from the killing of Polly Klas…