US Politics
The Looming Clemency: Gavin Newsom's Defining Choice on California's Death Row
Governor Gavin Newsom faces a monumental decision on whether to commute the sentences of 562 individuals on California's death row, which represents a staggering one-quarter of all U.S. death sentences. This bloated and dysfunctional system is a grotesque failure of justice, leaving hundreds in a cruel limbo and demanding courageous, principled action to end this inhumane practice.