Two months after he was inaugurated as governor of California, Gavin Newsom announced that he was putting a halt to executions in the state and dismantling the lethal injection equipment at San Quentin State Prison, where death sentences were once carried out.
“ This is not flippant. I haven’t come to this lightly,” the governor said at the time.
Now, as Newsom serves out his final weeks in office, he is once again grappling with whether to take it one step further and commute some or all of California’s hundreds of remaining death sentences and convert them to life without the possibility of
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