Democrat’s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike’s failed execution
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, has commuted the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state’s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations.
The Democrat’s mass commutation at the end of his term has converted all of the state’s death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, the largest clearing of any US death row in modern history.
The move comes after the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee sparked global outrage and renewed calls for a nationwide pause on capital punishment.
Broken clock something something.
Between this and Vance distancing himself from Trump, I guess posturing for the 2028 presidential election is now in full swing.
Nearly any other Democrat would be better than Newsom.
[… any other Democrat would be better than Newsom].
Message received. Get ready for Schumer 2028!
Punisheder
Even Harris would probably be better than Newsom, and nearly any other Democrat would also be better than Harris.
Wow, that’s cursed.
distraction from him trying to veto any recent bills, and being against the billionaire tax. hes aiming for 2028 presidency.
If he runs that’s how we get another Republican
Broken clock something something
Is desperate to stay relevant with sand shifting under their feet?
I’m no American but I think maybe he’s just not rotten to the core or inherently evil and actually just doesn’t like the death penalty very much. It’s a pretty low bar, after all.
He’s a 90s Republican, before the exponential plunge into fascism. This is how they behaved domestically.
Pre-MAGA Republicans toyed with (and continue to toy with) fascism since at least Reagan though.
Well considering that there’s actually a moratorium on the death penalty in California and none of these people were going to be executed, I think this is more performative than anything else.
Except a moratorium can be phased out. This can’t. That’s potentially a huge difference.
Next Gov already said he wouldn’t.
and the one after that?
Could have done it before. Pure politician, pure politics. Strike when the time is right not when right is right.
You clearly have no understanding of how deeply rooted American corruption is.
“is right twice a day” is the next part
Wrong!
That one is still right once a day
You know, as long as we’re talking about the cliche, one interesting thing to consider is that hand-set clocks are always slightly slow or slightly fast, so a properly functioning and calibrated clock isn’t even right once a day.
We have standard-setting atomic clocks, but due to the properties of relativity, it’s impossible that they ever precisely match each other, no matter how accurate their mechanism, and so realistically, you can only possibly have one clock anywhere with the “right” time.
So, if you’re going by the most times it can be accurate during the day, but not the actual one standard clock, I think a clock that runs backwards as quickly as possible would have the most times during a day that it is accurate.
You sure? I live here and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t get shit right that often.
It wasn’t meant literal, jeez!!
And, with this announcement, Newsome 2028 has begun. 😅
But, props where props are due. Death penalty gets handed out far too often and far too disproportionately, within a legal system that gets stuff wrong far too often.
He nuked the billionaire tax…
Oh, I’m not his fan girl. Just giving a nod for when someone does the right thing.
Apologies, I wasn’t suggesting you were. Just noting it’s a convenient distraction.
Ah, true. That’s very fair.
He already put a moratorium on the death penalty in CA back in 2019. Its literally nothing other than posturing. Its about the most Gavin shit he could pull right now.
This appears to a pretty rare case of Newsome doing something he sincerly believes in. His advisors were telling him not to do this because it polled poorly among general election voters in the US. This is also something that he has fairly consistantly done. After a ballot initiative passed to speed up executions and the court challenges expired he issued a morratorium on executions and took the state execution chamber apart.
I’m onboard with this. I’m not necessarily opposed to the death penalty, but our society has demonstrated again and again we are not applying this, the ultimate punishment, equally to everyone across our society. There are large class and race issues that appear to subject some groups to much greater death penalty judgments than other groups.
Unequal justice is injustice. Ban the death penalty.
I’m not necessarily opposed to the death penalty
Everyone should be, for a very simple reason.
It is permanent, there is no way to recover from it once completed.
So I’m still for the death penalty on principle. In a perfect world…
Yet I need to compromise as having no death penalty is to prefered over the possibilty of having people wrongly executed.
I find it interesting that I start with my post about saying I support the banning the death penalty, and I close with the post with my support for banning the death penalty. Yet multiple people are clipping out both of those agreements to focus on the an intermediate disagreement.
We arrive at the same conclusion to ban the death penalty, but you don’t like the first reason why I want it banned. Why fight a battle that is already won?
I am against the death penalty, and for essentially the same reason, but I think, generally, you can’t recover if you’ve been on death row or even just falsely imprisoned for years. If somebody’s been imprisoned for 15 years and they turn out to be innocent, they can be released and compensated, but I don’t know if they can really recover.
That’s why it’s so important to be really certain when doling out any punishment.
I’ll try to say something a little more precise, I hope. I have limited sympthy for the individual fate of somebody who does some of the things that can get a person executed, but the death penalty itself is not a good thing.
I just don’t see the value in revenge, and as much as we all feel for victims, the reason you have society make these decisions is because you know victims and their families can’t be objective. Maybe some of them will even really feel better, but the rest of us won’t. The death penalty can only go wrong, either by being inequitably applied or literally dooming the wrong person to die with no way to salvage what’s left of their lives if you learn of the mistake later. Or hell, with recent attempts, it can just literally go wrong and torture someone, maybe even without even killing them.
Permanent removal from free society is more than sufficient for public safety and deterrence. More blood doesn’t bring anyone’s loved ones back; it just makes a community that much more grim for indulging its worst instincts.
I’m not going to argue with you on the why to ban the death penalty. We both agree it should be banned. Honestly the reasons we arrive at the same answer are immaterial.
So transparent
