Commentary: Newsom's death penalty moratorium isn't perfect, but here's why it matters
The apparatus of death is being dismantled in California, and hundreds of inmates slated for execution have been granted reprieves. But whether this is anything more than a pause in the insanity of our state's death penalty system will be up to us.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's bold move to defang the death penalty was a shot across the bow in a state that is deeply divided over capital punishment.
He couched it in personal and principled terms: "The intentional killing of another person is
