There is going to be a lot of tough guy talk from the MAGAs, but, they are wrong. It is time to realize there is no reasonable death sentence that can be conducted. Why have the USA held in ridicule by our peer countries?
The answer for civilized people to seek is how do we as a society remove the reasons for crime?
By Jeanne Kuang and Nigel Duara
Gov. Gavin Newsom (click here) is commuting the death sentences of 548 people, clearing the California death row for the first time since the state conducted hangings in the late 19th century.
It is a monumental move in the history of capital punishment in America: The prisoners represent more than a quarter of the nation’s condemned inmates.
And it is a decision Newsom has spoken about in starkly personal terms. In 2019, shortly after taking office, he issued a moratorium on executions just three years after voters rejected a ballot measure to abolish the death penalty and instead approved one to speed them up. But at the time, the governor said he couldn’t be responsible for killing another person.
“After nearly 30 years in office I have come to understand the limits of what government can justly accomplish,” Newsom wrote in a letter addressed “to all Californians.” “I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us.”...
Gov. Gavin Newsom (click here) is commuting the death sentences of 548 people, clearing the California death row for the first time since the state conducted hangings in the late 19th century.
It is a monumental move in the history of capital punishment in America: The prisoners represent more than a quarter of the nation’s condemned inmates.
And it is a decision Newsom has spoken about in starkly personal terms. In 2019, shortly after taking office, he issued a moratorium on executions just three years after voters rejected a ballot measure to abolish the death penalty and instead approved one to speed them up. But at the time, the governor said he couldn’t be responsible for killing another person.
“After nearly 30 years in office I have come to understand the limits of what government can justly accomplish,” Newsom wrote in a letter addressed “to all Californians.” “I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us.”...
