Democrat’s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike’s failed execution
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, has commuted the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state’s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations.
The Democrat’s mass commutation at the end of his term has converted all of the state’s death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, the largest clearing of any US death row in modern history.
The move comes after the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee sparked global outrage and renewed calls for a nationwide pause on capital punishment.
Broken clock something something
Is desperate to stay relevant with sand shifting under their feet?
I’m no American but I think maybe he’s just not rotten to the core or inherently evil and actually just doesn’t like the death penalty very much. It’s a pretty low bar, after all.
He’s a 90s Republican, before the exponential plunge into fascism. This is how they behaved domestically.
Pre-MAGA Republicans toyed with (and continue to toy with) fascism since at least Reagan though.
Well considering that there’s actually a moratorium on the death penalty in California and none of these people were going to be executed, I think this is more performative than anything else.
The moratorium was imposed by Newsom with executive order N-09-19 in March of 2019.
Yes and the next governor already said he has no plans to revoke it. Making this completely performative.
Except a moratorium can be phased out. This can’t. That’s potentially a huge difference.
Next Gov already said he wouldn’t.
and the one after that?
Could have done it before. Pure politician, pure politics. Strike when the time is right not when right is right.
You clearly have no understanding of how deeply rooted American corruption is.
“is right twice a day” is the next part
Wrong!
Get that unholy abomination out of here!
You probably mean the 00 that should be a 24 to keep with the tradiiton? 😆
That one is still right once a day
You know, as long as we’re talking about the cliche, one interesting thing to consider is that hand-set clocks are always slightly slow or slightly fast, so a properly functioning and calibrated clock isn’t even right once a day.
We have standard-setting atomic clocks, but due to the properties of relativity, it’s impossible that they ever precisely match each other, no matter how accurate their mechanism, and so realistically, you can only possibly have one clock anywhere with the “right” time.
So, if you’re going by the most times it can be accurate during the day, but not the actual one standard clock, I think a clock that runs backwards as quickly as possible would have the most times during a day that it is accurate.
You sure? I live here and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t get shit right that often.
It wasn’t meant literal, jeez!!