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Gov. Newsom commuted the death sentences of all 548 condemned California inmates to LWOP, Life Without Parole.
Gavin Newsom commutes all 548 California death sentences
“I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” Newsom wrote. “This decision is among the most difficult of my career, not because I doubt its necessity for our state but because I know its announcement may surface excruciating memories for victims’ families.”
Marc Klaas said he realized more than a decade ago that California was unlikely to execute Richard Allen Davis, who killed his 12-year-old daughter Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her Petaluma home in 1993 in a grisly case that shocked the nation and helped pave the way for tough-on-crime laws across the country.“But I was always confident that there was not a chance on earth or in hell that he would ever find a path to be released back into society,” Klaas said. “If you take away the death penalty and give them (life without parole), you’ve taken them one step closer to that possibility.“If Gavin Newsom wants to go this route,” he added, “Fuck him.”Two-thirds of American adults support capital punishment for people convicted of murder, including 51% of Democrats and 84% of Republicans. -
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