Business Leader Calls for End to California’s “Broken” Death Penalty System | Death Penalty Information Center

Business Leader Calls for End to California’s “Broken” Death Penalty System | Death Penalty Information Center

A promi­nent busi­ness exec­u­tive and mem­ber of a larg­er coali­tion of over 500 glob­al busi­ness lead­ers is call­ing on California Governor Gavin Newsom to com­mute all death sen­tences in California to life with­out parole. In a July 2025 op-ed, Matthew Stepka, a mem­ber of Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty, calls California’s death penal­ty sys­tem a fail­ure of both jus­tice and fiscal responsibility. > “If any com­pa­ny or prod…