California Governor Newsom granting clemency to all 548 death row inmates in state

⁠California Governor Gavin Newsom said ⁠on Thursday he would commute ⁠the death sentences of all 548 inmates currently condemned to execution in his state, the largest death row in the western hemisphere. The announcement, in a three-page letter addressed to “all Californians”, came as Newsom, a Democrat who is expected ‌to seek his party’s presidential nomination in 2028, neared the end of his second and final four-year term as governor. Newsom, who previously served as mayor of San Francisco...