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California governor to grant clemency to all 548 death row inmates in state
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from France 24 [en] · North America
California's governor Gavy Newsom announced Thursday that he will commute all death sentences in the state to life without the possibility of parole. He said that "capital punishment is morally wrong." The state Supreme Court will have the final say in hundreds of those cases.
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