California governor commutes sentences of more than 500 people on death row

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would commute the sentences of all 548 people on the state’s death row, in what Al Jazeera describes as the largest mass clemency in United States history. They will instead serve life sentences without the possibility of parole. Newsom said state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values and undermines the legal system. California has not executed a prisoner in 20 years.