Mike Hestrin

Rule Changes

Weighing a court challenge to the commutations

Governor Gavin Newsom's order to commute all 548 California death sentences to life without parole now depends on the state Supreme Court, which has no deadline to act. About 382 of the condemned were convicted of more than one felony and need four justices to concur; the rest Newsom can commute on his own.

Updated 2 days ago