Newsom can grant reprieves, but other steps might face legal challenges, experts say
by Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 13, 2019
3 minutes
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has full legal authority to spare the lives of death row inmates during his term in office, but he could be challenged for discarding the state's death penalty protocol and shuttering the execution chamber, legal analysts said Wednesday.
Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday granting reprieves to the 737 inmates on California's death row. He also said he would withdraw a single-drug protocol for executions and shut down the execution chamber at San Quentin.
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