Search results
Jan 13, 2023 · No inmates will be re-sentenced and no death row commutations offered, officials say. Technically, the death penalty still exists in California. Prosecutors can still seek it.
- Eric Westervelt
Apr 4, 2024 · Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on executions in 2019 and ordered death row to be dismantled. More than 100 condemned prisoners have already been moved. By the end of summer, death row...
- Anita Chabria
- Columnist
- anita.chabria@latimes.com
Feb 8, 2022 · Feb. 8, 2022 5 AM PT. Could this be the end of the line for the end of the line? Three years after an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed the brakes on executions in California, which...
- Patt Morrison
- Columnist
- patt.morrison@latimes.com
Feb 1, 2022 · California’s death row — the largest in the country — will be dismantled within two years, Governor Gavin Newsom announced on January 31, 2022. Under Newsom’s plan, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will transfer the men on death row in San Quentin State Prison to other maximum security state prisons.
Jun 3, 2021 · (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) By Maura Dolan Staff Writer. June 3, 2021 5 AM PT. For decades, California’s highest court has left it up to individual jurors to decide whether certain...
Jan 9, 2023 · Since peaking at 98 in 1999, executions have dropped by 82 percent. Geographically, the death penalty’s retreat is stark. Thirty-seven states have abolished the death penalty altogether or have...
Mar 13, 2019 · SACRAMENTO –- Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today placing a moratorium on the death penalty in California. The executive order also calls for withdrawing California’s lethal injection protocols and immediately closing the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
