Gov. Gavin Newsom will impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. Read more from philwillon:
included a $1-billion"working families tax credit," more than double the size of the state's existing tax break for low-income workers, and set aside $500 million to help local governments build shelters and add services to help the homeless.California has not executed a prisoner since 2006 because of a series of legal challenges to its method of lethal injection.
“I do not believe that a civilized society can claim to be a leader in the world as long as its government continues to sanction the premeditated and discriminatory execution of its people,” Newsom says in his prepared remarks. “In short, the death penalty is inconsistent with our bedrock values and strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a Californian.”
To impose a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in California, Newsom will grant reprieves to all death row inmates that will stay in place throughout his time as governor. But the reprieves will expire as soon as Newsom leaves office, pushing the life-and-death decisions to his successor.Newsom also has authority to commute sentences to life in prison for condemned inmates convicted of a single felony.
Scheidegger’s organization was one of the main proponents of the successful 2016 ballot measure to fast-track executions in California, which passed by a margin of just 2 percentage points. In that same election, a competing ballot measure to repeal the death penalty and commute sentences to life in prison, Proposition 62, failed by just over 6 percentage points.
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