Gavin Newsom’s death penalty clemency echoes mass commutations of Arkansas’ Win Rockefeller

On Thursday, 56 years after Rockefeller did so, Newsom moved to grant clemency to all 548 prisoners on California’s death row, reducing their sentences to life without parole and bringing about the largest mass commutation in U.S. history.

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