Newsom commutes California death sentences
Politics · First reported 5 Nov, 15:09 · Updated 19:43
California Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted the death sentences of the state’s death-row prisoners, changing their sentences to life without parole. The accounts describe the action as affecting more than 500 people, with one giving the figure as 548.
- Newsom commuted the death sentences of California prisoners on death row; one account says the action covered 548 inmates.
- The sentences were changed to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to The Guardian.
- The New York Times account says Newsom called capital punishment morally objectionable and describes the commutations as about a quarter of death sentences nationwide.
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- Gavin Newsom
- Number affected
- 548, according to The New York Times; The Guardian says more than 500.
- New sentence
- Life without the possibility of parole.
- Last California execution
- 2006.
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