The governor plans to sign an executive order to block the death penalty in his state. It will also withdraw California's lethal injection protocol and close the execution chamber at San Quentin prison
Governor Gavin Newsom will announce the measure today Image: Paul Kitagaki Jr/PA Images Governor Gavin Newsom will announce the measure today Image: Paul Kitagaki Jr/PA Images CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN Newsom will today impose a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty in the US state, granting temporary reprieve to the 737 inmates on death row – the largest such group in the country.
“The death penalty is inconsistent with our bedrock values and strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a Californian,” Newsom will say, according to prepared remarks from his office. The governor plans to sign an executive order to block the death penalty in his state. It will also withdraw California’s lethal injection protocol and close the execution chamber at San Quentin prison, his office said.A quarter of all those on death row in the United States are in California, according to the governor’s office. Twenty-five people on California’s death row have exhausted all of their appeals.
The state joins Colorado, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, which have similar bans, and 20 states that have abolished the death penalty, it said.
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