# California governor commutes all death sentences

https://mins.news/en/item/131685

- NBC News, 2026-11-05 23:49 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/california-governor-commutes-all-death-sentences-272966213517

> California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an open letter that he will reduce every death sentence in the state to life in prison without the possibility of parole, in what NBC describes as the broadest such commutation in modern U.S. history.

## Related coverage

- [California governor commutes death sentences for more than 500 people](https://mins.news/en/item/131652) — Al Jazeera, 2026-11-06
- [California governor commutes all death sentences](https://mins.news/en/video/131605) — NBC News, 2026-11-06
- [California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’ll commute all death sentences to life without parole](https://mins.news/en/item/131423) — CBC News, 2026-11-05
- [Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners to life without parole](https://mins.news/en/item/131345) — CNN, 2026-11-05