California Gov. Newsom is moving to commute all death sentences in the state.<\/p>\n
The action would convert those sentences to life in prison, but it stops short of repealing the death penalty itself \u2014 prosecutors would still be able to seek capital punishment in future cases.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> CBS News \u2014 Newsom moves to commute all California death sentences<\/a>. Also reported by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, The New York Times<\/a>, NBC News<\/a>, MS NOW<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" California Gov. Newsom is moving to commute all death sentences in the state. The action…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56,393,351,348,394],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","tag-california","tag-commutation","tag-criminal-justice","tag-death-penalty","tag-newsom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}