Habeas Corpus Resource Center

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Tracks death row population and clemency process

California has 548 people under a death sentence. It has executed 13 of them since voters reinstated capital punishment in 1978, and none since 2006. On November 5, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom said he will commute every one of those sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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