Democrat’s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike’s failed execution

Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, has commuted the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state’s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations.

The Democrat’s mass commutation at the end of his term has converted all of the state’s death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, the largest clearing of any US death row in modern history.

The move comes after the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee sparked global outrage and renewed calls for a nationwide pause on capital punishment.

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[–] 44 points 14 hours ago (19 children)

Broken clock something something

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  • [–] -2 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

    I'm no American but I think maybe he's just not rotten to the core or inherently evil and actually just doesn't like the death penalty very much. It's a pretty low bar, after all.

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    He's a 90s Republican, before the exponential plunge into fascism. This is how they behaved domestically.

    Pre-MAGA Republicans toyed with (and continue to toy with) fascism since at least Reagan though.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    Well considering that there's actually a moratorium on the death penalty in California and none of these people were going to be executed, I think this is more performative than anything else.

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  • [+] -6 points 13 hours ago* (7 children)

    "is right twice a day" is the next part

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    That one is still right once a day

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    You know, as long as we're talking about the cliche, one interesting thing to consider is that hand-set clocks are always slightly slow or slightly fast, so a properly functioning and calibrated clock isn't even right once a day.

    We have standard-setting atomic clocks, but due to the properties of relativity, it's impossible that they ever precisely match each other, no matter how accurate their mechanism, and so realistically, you can only possibly have one clock anywhere with the "right" time.

    So, if you're going by the most times it can be accurate during the day, but not the actual one standard clock, I think a clock that runs backwards as quickly as possible would have the most times during a day that it is accurate.

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