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California Has One-Quarter of All the Nation’s Death Sentences. Will Newsom Commute Them All?

Advocates say a mass commutation would spare 564 people from execution and cut the U.S. death-row total by more than a quarter.

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the state’s death penalty system a failure and issued an […]

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California has one-quarter of all the nation’s death sentences. Will Newsom commute them all?

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the state’s death penalty system a failure and issued an […]

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The Marshall Project broke the news in New York, United States on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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