Newsome Ignores California Voters. Ends Death Penalty

[daveman]

cali democrats: we want less time between sentencing and execution
newsome: SILENCE PROLES I WILL TELL YOU YOUR OPINION AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

 

[basquebromance]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

 

[daveman]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

Ummm...wrong thread, or Tourette's?

 

[basquebromance]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

Ummm...wrong thread, or Tourette's?

trump been um, sayin Newsom should execute black folks. Jesse Jackson wants to cut his nuts off.

 

[daveman]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

Ummm...wrong thread, or Tourette's?

trump been um, sayin Newsom should execute black folks. Jesse Jackson wants to cut his nuts off.

Yeah, that requires a credible citation.

 

[daveman]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

Ummm...wrong thread, or Tourette's?

trump been um, sayin Newsom should execute black folks. Jesse Jackson wants to cut his nuts off.

Yeah, that requires a credible citation.

Shockingly, no credible citation has been offered.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Newsom is making the state safe for the killers he is welcoming.

 

[Pogo]

trumps paranoid, it's common in dementia patients

Ummm...wrong thread, or Tourette's?

trump been um, sayin Newsom should execute black folks. Jesse Jackson wants to cut his nuts off.

Yeah, that requires a credible citation.

Holy SHIT. You don't recognize a parody?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Being Governor comes with the privilege of commuting death sentences. This just in.

You want him to be forced to kill? What if he doesn't believe in killing?

Killing exists whether he believes in it or not

 

[denmark]

Being Governor comes with the privilege of commuting death sentences. This just in.

You want him to be forced to kill? What if he doesn't believe in killing?

Newsome is not forced to kill anyone, but it’s his duty to allow the will of the people he represents (state law voted by citizens) to be realized UNLESS he has good reason to believe the imprisoned is innocent.
Many, if not most, death row prisoners deserve to be terminated. That Davis guy who kidnapped, abused and killed a 12-year-old girl comes to mind.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

In 2016 in a referendum (Proposition 66) voters in California voted to speed up the appeals procedure for death row inmates and also rejected a plan to end the death penalty in California. California Votes To Speed Up Death Penalty, Rather Than Abolish It | HuffPost
I think that made their opinion on the death penalty pretty clear.

But now, just a few years later, governor Gavin Newsome has imperiously and autocratically ended the death penalty in California and without regard for the will of his constituents ignored their clearly expressed will.
Gov. Gavin Newsom to block California death row executions, close San Quentin execution chamber

The question is what will be the political price for Newsome in California, if any?
It is California and the democrats do seem to have a free hand in their, for all intents and purposes, one party state. And there doesn't seem to be any effective push back from California conservatives (if indeed there are any left in the severely tarnished "golden" state).

The larger question is what would cause California to turn on Newsome and the democrats. if anything?
Or has the state already long passed the tipping point?

They need more Democrat Voters

 

[deannalw]

A good move by California. The death penalty does not do what it was designed to do

It does when it's applied. It's designed to kill killers.

 

[candycorn]

A good move by California. The death penalty does not do what it was designed to do

It does when it's applied. It's designed to kill killers.

No. The nature of punishment is to deter criminals in general.
There is no deterrent to spending 25 years before your sentence is carried out.