PoliticsGavin Newsom moves to commute sentences of all California death row inmates

California Governor Gavin Newsom said he will change the death sentences of all 548 people on the state’s death row to life in prison without parole. He cited his longstanding opposition to capital punishment; some commutations still require approval from the state’s high court.

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