Gavin Newsom: ““Parents can’t compete. Can’t compete with the engineering, can’t compete with the algorithms,””

By every measure, California’s system for administering the death penalty is a failure.

Some have said I should not grant clemency to people who committed the worst of the worst crimes … I have learned, however, from speaking with the victims harmed by these crimes, that each experiences their loss as the worst of the worst.

This decision is among the most difficult of my career, not because I doubt its necessity for our state but because I know its announcement may surface excruciating memories for victims’ families.

This will always weigh heavily on me.