Commentary: Newsom's death penalty moratorium isn't perfect, but here's why it matters
by Sandy Banks, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2019
3 minutes
The apparatus of death is being dismantled in California, and hundreds of inmates slated for execution have been granted reprieves. But whether this is anything more than a pause in the insanity of our state's death penalty system will be up to us.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's bold move to defang the death penalty was a shot across the bow in a state that is deeply divided over capital punishment.
He couched it in personal and principled terms: "The intentional killing of another person is
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