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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 countrys 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.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crime; deathrow; newsom; reprieves
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To: windcliff; onedoug
To: Governor Dinwiddie
But then they voted for this guy so #### em.
It’s like voting against abortion then voting for a dem.
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posted on
03/13/2019 5:18:49 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: Impala64ssa
Some of the old timers will remember Gary Gilmore. He was executed in Utah back in 1977. Notable because his was the first execution (in the U.S.) in about 10 years as there were many court battles regarding capital punishment and for a time, it appeared that capital punishment would be banned in the U.S. permanently. But a lot of citizens wanted it and fought for it.
There was a book on this by Norman Mailer (a sympathetic treatment as I remember) that was actually quite good. I'll have to put it on my list to read again as it's been about 30 years since I read it the first time. Regardless, Gary Gilmore was a real piece of work and deserved the death penalty (which he insisted on being carried out).
To: kingu
...giving reprieves to 737 death row inmates...ANOTHER thread about Boeing planes??
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posted on
03/13/2019 5:42:18 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Enterprise
Exactly, “If just one potential democrat vote can be saved, it will be worth it” Should be the new democrat/communist motto.
65
posted on
03/13/2019 5:43:12 AM PDT
by
Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Professional
Give us BARABASS!!
66
posted on
03/13/2019 5:44:39 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Definitely a Genesis 19:9 one!
67
posted on
03/13/2019 5:45:10 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
But I thought Dems were all for "count every vote" and democracy 'n' stuff. They are. The DNC will make sure all the inmates are registered then vote harvested. Some mass murderer's vote counts just as much as JimRob's.
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posted on
03/13/2019 5:54:50 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
To: kingu
Newsom, you wanted to put California in play? This is how you put California in play. No chance. That state is permanently conquered territory.
69
posted on
03/13/2019 6:27:30 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
To: kingu
Newsom, you wanted to put California in play? This is how you put California in play. No chance. That state is permanently conquered territory.
70
posted on
03/13/2019 6:28:03 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
To: kingu
Fine by me. Let them go. Let them live in SF. They would all fit in great in that homo city. Homos and murderers. What a great combination!!
71
posted on
03/13/2019 6:29:28 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Russia and Putin didn't make me vote for Trump, HILLARY DID!!!)
To: kingu
"
can be used to prove any point. Long and short of it, people who have murdered cops and multiple people will be commuted to life without parole"New born babies not included. They get the death penalty😔.
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posted on
03/13/2019 6:38:35 AM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
To: Candor7; P-Marlowe
So murder is ok in California?
73
posted on
03/13/2019 6:52:35 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
To: xzins
Kill the innocent. Spare the guilty.
74
posted on
03/13/2019 6:55:02 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
To: RetiredArmy
Fine by me. Let them go. Let them live in SF. They would all fit in great in that homo city. Homos and murderers. What a great combination!!Nahh, serial rapists and murderers are released to conservative areas with all sorts of promises of monitoring...which last for a week before they're found wandering around, eyeing the children. Judges always find some random reason to release them as far away as possible from their beloved liberal utopias.
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posted on
03/13/2019 7:18:58 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kingu
Next, he’ll give them the right to vote - from prison.
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posted on
03/13/2019 8:28:07 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
To: SkyPilot
[Newsom says the death penalty system has discriminated against ... people of color.]
That's right. "People of color" should be allowed to commit heinous crimes and get away with it. White is not a color to liberals. Why anyone, especially white, votes Democrat is beyond my ability to comprehend. Liberals will wreck the entire United States of America.
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posted on
03/13/2019 8:33:04 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: P-Marlowe
If we’re sure we’ve got the killer, and we’re sure he’s death row material, that he killed in malicious, cold blood, then what do we say about the value of the victim’s life?
Innocent life isn’t that valuable according to our government.
Abortion.
Euthanasia
Murder
78
posted on
03/13/2019 8:38:56 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
[Trump CANNOT sign an Executive Order to stop the invasion which includes lots of murderers.
But Newsom CAN sign an Executive Order to end execution of murderers.
Go figure. We live in Bizzaro World.]
It’s the Democrat way.
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posted on
03/13/2019 8:43:48 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Elsie
737.
These leftists are into the occult and it’s not necessarily a coincidence that he picked this number at this time.
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posted on
03/13/2019 8:55:21 AM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(The only check on a rogue DOJ and FBI is jury nullification.)
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