California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is considering sparing the lives of 563 death row inmates in his state.
\n\nNewsom is considering commuting the sentences of all 563 prisoners on California’s death row as one of his final acts in office, two people familiar with his thinking told the New York Times.
\n\nThe governor ramped up talks with his advisers last week, after the botched execution of Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike — although the sources claim Newsom had been mulling it over for several months.
\n\nNewsom reportedly weighed his options in a rush of phone calls, meetings, and Zoom conversations, the people familiar with his talks said.
\n\nCalifornia has not carried out an execution in 20 years, and the leading candidate to succeed Newsom has pledged to keep the moratorium on capital punishment in place.
\n\nThe governor’s closest advisers have given him conflicting advice, the sources told the New York Times.
\n\nWhile it remains unclear if Christa Pike’s botched execution in Tennessee will serve as the catalyst for hundreds of California death row inmates to get off the hook, the convicted murderess’s failed lethal injections have already spared at least one death row inmate from meeting his maker this…
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