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Gavin Newsom to stop death penalty in California, giving reprieves to 737 death row inmates
Sacramento Bee ^ | MARCH 12, 2019 07:24 PM | SOPHIA BOLLAG

Posted on 03/12/2019 8:19:51 PM PDT by kingu

Gov. Gavin Newsom is putting a moratorium on the death penalty in California, sparing the lives of more than 700 death-row inmates.

Newsom plans to sign an executive order Wednesday morning granting reprieves to all 737 Californians awaiting executions – a quarter of the country’s death row inmates.

His action comes three years after California voters rejected an initiative to end the death penalty, instead passing a measure to speed up executions.

Newsom says the death penalty system has discriminated against mentally ill defendants and people of color. It has not made the state safer and has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, according to prepared remarks Newsom plans to deliver Wednesday morning when he signs the order.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crime; deathrow; newsom; reprieves
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To: kingu

I thought it was ironic that when I shipped out for Basic Training my ex-boss shipped out for prison for murder. So the government spent $50k/year for me to be a soldier and a little less than $50k/year for him to sit in prison.


81 posted on 03/13/2019 8:59:30 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world has been crucified to me.)
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To: kingu

“...Of course, Newsom promised that the people would have their voice heard in this and their decision would be what he stuck with. Guess if you don’t ask, you get to tell people what their opinion is....”

Typical California totalitarian liberalism at work. Another major “in your face Trump” and the cementing of liberal absolute power in the state. Total rejection of the will of the voters. And no accountability.


82 posted on 03/13/2019 9:16:53 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: snarkytart

And Randy Kraft.


83 posted on 03/13/2019 9:50:05 AM PDT by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"But I thought Dems were all for "count every vote" and democracy 'n' stuff."

They want to "count every vote" of convicted felons and death row inmates...

84 posted on 03/13/2019 9:58:04 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: snarkytart

Manson WAS on Death row BUT Ca. overturned the death penalty, the death penalty was then reinstated HOWEVER Manson was not put back on death row!! The BASTARD I want to see FRY is Scott Peterson who killed his beautiful pregnant wife, so now this POS has a reprieve and we will feed and house him FOREVER!!! What it doesn’t say is if these SOB’s will EVER be eligible for parole!!!


85 posted on 03/13/2019 10:16:50 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: roadcat

The will of the people who keep electing these simpletons.


86 posted on 03/13/2019 10:43:22 AM PDT by kempster
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To: kingu
Charles Ng gets bailed out by Newscum.

If you leave video of you raping, torturing and murdering people lying around for the authorities to find, do it in Northern Mexifornia.

87 posted on 03/13/2019 11:22:21 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Grampa Dave
These 700 + killers have cost us as taxpayers millions of $’s in lawyer fees each year and zero justice.

They have Charles Ng on videotape doing his thing.

Zero justice.

Law-abiding California citizens are going to have to start doing to their politicians what unpopular officers got in the 'Nam.

88 posted on 03/13/2019 11:27:15 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: snarkytart

Don’t forget Charles Ng.


89 posted on 03/13/2019 11:27:47 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: kingu

Reprieves? What does that mean— releasing convicted murderers to freedom? No freaking way— so now they must still be housed, and commuted to Life w/out parole?


90 posted on 03/13/2019 11:40:55 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
California’s incestuous history to share with everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLvExAbxWs&feature=share

The underworld of the oligarchy of Cartelfornia. Newsom taking the National Guard off the border insures the fentanyl and heroin trade. Imagine all those death row criminals back in the streets? Oh yeeh, they already are and we the people pay for their horrors in lives.

I better stop because if I think too much on your YT video it all starts making too much sense.

91 posted on 03/13/2019 11:54:55 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: Publius

No, there won’t. It will upset voters, but not enough to rile them up for a recall. Mario Cuomo adamantly opposed the Death Penalty for years, even though the electorate was against it. He was repeatedly reelected until 1994, and his party stayed in power. Leftard-leaning states have a silent majority that wants the death penalty, but they don’t want it enough to do anything about it.


92 posted on 03/13/2019 12:42:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Karliner

Please help by passing the video to everyone. All these sewer dwellers loathe the light of truth shining on them.


93 posted on 03/13/2019 12:59:23 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I’ll put it on Gab, all my fake accounts get slammed on FB from retroactive hate speech and some content baloney. It’s a totalitarian world...or slowly closing in on one.


94 posted on 03/13/2019 3:50:49 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: kingu
Expel Kalifornia from the Union.Once completed build a wall at all points where it borders US territory and make that wall one that the East German Government would have looked upon with envy.

Kalifornia is lost.Kalifornia has sunk to a level of depravity from which it cannot...and will not...escape.

95 posted on 03/13/2019 4:13:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Expel Kalifornia from the Union.

How many men does it take to defend France? No one knows, it's never been attempted.

Perhaps you should fly the French flag on your profile page... The white one.

96 posted on 03/13/2019 4:18:05 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Funny how there wasn’t much moral pontificating over the immorality of the death penalty concerning Tim McVeigh...

Exactly.McVeigh,Zimmerman,the cop who killed the "Gentle Giant",the guy who shot up that black church in SC recently...leftists nationwide would have volunteered to flip the switch for all of them.Of course McVeigh and the church shooter deserve/deserved the hot squat but the Left,as usual,engages in selective outrage.

97 posted on 03/13/2019 4:23:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: kingu

Seems like a dictator move; disregard the ‘will of the people’ and decide to do what you want instead.

I wonder if an ‘executive order’ is even allowed in that state.


98 posted on 03/13/2019 4:41:17 PM PDT by KIDFOH
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To: kingu
How many men does it take to defend France? No one knows, it's never been attempted.

So tell me how the defense of Kalifornia is going.

99 posted on 03/13/2019 5:20:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: kingu

Its the 9th circuit. They approve anything to add up voters for the commies.


100 posted on 03/13/2019 5:36:43 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Russia and Putin didn't make me vote for Trump, HILLARY DID!!!)
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