California governor to impose a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in his state
By Scott Wilson and Scott Wilson Senior national correspondent focusing on California and the West Email Bio Follow Mark Berman Mark Berman National news reporter Email Bio Follow March 12 at 10:31 PM California Gov.
Newsom, who took office in January after serving eight years as the state’s lieutenant governor, has long opposed the death penalty. He is Catholic, and his faith has sometimes guided his policy decisions, including his long-standing opposition to capital punishment. An inmate is led out of his cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2016. No executions are scheduled in California. The state last carried out an execution in 2006 when Clarence Ray Allen, a 76-year-old diabetic convicted two decades earlier of triple murder, was put to death.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to impose an indefinite moratorium on carrying out the death penalty, arguing that the cost, finality and racial imbalance among death row inmates make the punishment immoral and a public policy “failure.” Given its size, any change to California’s death row carries immediate implications for the status of American capital punishment.
Some states have begun looking to other methods besides lethal injection, the country’s primary method of execution. Tennessee used the electric chair twice last year and Utah made the firing squad its backup method of execution. Oklahoma has said it will use nitrogen gas for all executions going forward, an unprecedented move.
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