In case you wonder how deeply pro-criminal sentiments have permeated the California Democratic Party , the state is now seriously considering letting its worst murderers out of prison after serving just 20 years.

A bill introduced in the California legislature invalidates the death sentences or life without parole sentences for criminals convicted of murder with special circumstances before June 5, 1990. This means that murderers who “killed multiple victims or killed in concert with a rape, robbery, kidnapping or torture” would be eligible for release after serving just 20 years behind bars.

Bills introduced in state legislatures are not themselves newsworthy, as any single loon can introduce absurd proposals that have no chance of passing. But this bill has six co-authors in the legislature, including the state’s most destructive legislator, state Sen. Scott Wiener. The bill was referred to the state Senate’s Appropriations Committee on Tuesday and is supported by a who’s who of California identity advocacy organizations and criminal justice “reform” groups.

We have already seen this attitude take hold among district attorneys. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price dropped the special circumstances against convicted murderer David Misch, meaning he is not even eligible for life without parole. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon allowed a gang member to be freed despite being convicted of murder with special circumstances because the man had been 17 when he was convicted. He killed another man shortly after being released.

There is a good chance that California adopts that mindset statewide, at least for murderers convicted before 1990. The most gruesome murders in the state would carry just a minimum of 20 years in prison. And it is not too hard to see that naturally being extended to recent murderers as well. The gang member Gascon allowed to walk by refusing to contest his retrial was convicted in 2012.

There are plenty of difficult questions in the criminal justice system, but what the appropriate sentence is for murderers who kill multiple people or kill their victims after raping them is not one. And yet that is the one California Democrats want to reconsider, while district attorneys in the state’s most populous areas have already done so. California would not just be spitting in the face of victims by passing this; it would be celebrating the district attorneys that are already doing so.