On his podcast “This is Gavin Newsom,” California Governor Gavin Newsom discusses death row clemency as his second and final term as governor comes to a close.

Newsom has only months left in office. In 2019, he halted executions, recognizing the racial injustice and irreversible risks of California’s death penalty. But a future governor can reverse that decision. A pause can be unpaused. Since 1981, eight people have been exonerated and released from California’s death row. Every one of them was a man of color. When the state gets it wrong, it does not get it wrong equally.

On September 30, Tennessee’s horrifying attempt to execute Christa Pike left her alive after two lethal injections and hospitalized with severe injuries. Tennessee’s governor has suspended executions. California must exhibit moral leadership and go further.

More than 500 people remain under death sentences in California, the largest death row population in the nation. By commuting every death sentence he will remove the threat of execution for the incarcerated people living under that daily torment.

The Prosecutors Alliance Action put together a video of Gavin’s podcast interview where his choice to grant clemency was addressed.

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