# California governor commutes all death sentences

https://mins.news/en/video/131605

- NBC News, 2026-11-06 00:22 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jieRSswz_Q

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

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