Working for Universal Clemency for Everyone on California's Death Row

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Governor Newsom:

California’s death penalty process is inhumane, unjust, ineffective, and unfixable. Please use your executive authority to grant clemency in all death penalty cases.

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What People Are Saying

"As long as men and women are facing death sentences in California, there will always be a chance that an innocent person could be executed. Universal clemency is the first step to ensuring this irreversible injustice never occurs." - Herman Lindsey, Death Row Exoneree and Director, Witness to Innocence
"As long as men and women are facing death sentences in California, there will always be a chance that an innocent person could be executed. Universal clemency is the first step to ensuring this irreversible injustice never occurs." - Herman Lindsey, Death Row Exoneree and Director, Witness to Innocence
“Now is the time for California to be a beacon of light for the rest of the country by protecting the civil rights and human dignity of the state’s most vulnerable residents. Governor Newsom can start by commuting the sentences of everyone on California’s death row.” - Vincent Pan with Chinese for Affirmative Action
“Now is the time for California to be a beacon of light for the rest of the country by protecting the civil rights and human dignity of the state’s most vulnerable residents. Governor Newsom can start by commuting the sentences of everyone on California’s death row.” - Vincent Pan with Chinese for Affirmative Action
Mike Farrell
"I support the call for universal clemency, a crucial step in criminal justice reform. The people of the State of California understand the harm done by racist, arbitrary, anti-human systems. State killing demeans us all. Dismantling this broken system amplifies the meaning of human dignity.” - Mike Farrell
"It is so well-demonstrated that the death penalty is applied in patently racist ways, it is time for us to move to reject the death penalty entirely. The proposal for universal clemency is a wonderful step in that direction.” - Rabbi Amy Eilberg
"It is so well-demonstrated that the death penalty is applied in patently racist ways, it is time for us to move to reject the death penalty entirely. The proposal for universal clemency is a wonderful step in that direction.” - Rabbi Amy Eilberg
"Black Californians are 4x more likely to be sentenced to death"
"Black Californians are 4x more likely to be sentenced to death"
"I urge Gavin Newsom to uphold California's values of dignity, human rights, and equal justice by commuting the sentences of every person sitting on death row. " - Morgan Zamora, Ella Baker Center
"I urge Gavin Newsom to uphold California's values of dignity, human rights, and equal justice by commuting the sentences of every person sitting on death row. " - Morgan Zamora, Ella Baker Center
“The death penalty is inhumane and cruel. Gov Newsom should extend clemency to all on death row and abolish the death penalty in California." - Pastor Mike McBride, LIVEFREE
“The death penalty is inhumane and cruel. Gov Newsom should extend clemency to all on death row and abolish the death penalty in California." - Pastor Mike McBride, LIVEFREE
“The death penalty and entire criminal legal system is overrepresented with disabled people, especially disabled people of color. DRC has strongly advocated to ensure that people with mental health disabilities, brain injury, and intellectual and developmental disabilities are not on death row." - Eric Harris, Disability Rights California
“The death penalty and entire criminal legal system is overrepresented with disabled people, especially disabled people of color. DRC has strongly advocated to ensure that people with mental health disabilities, brain injury, and intellectual and developmental disabilities are not on death row." - Eric Harris, Disability Rights California
“I would urge the governor to follow the lead of neighboring states and move forward with universal clemency as soon as possible.” - Natasha Minsker, Smart Justice California
“I would urge the governor to follow the lead of neighboring states and move forward with universal clemency as soon as possible.” - Natasha Minsker, Smart Justice California
"Ending the death penalty is one way we begin to address the enduring consequences of slavery, racial terror, and state-sanctioned violence." - Lisa Holder, Equal Justice Society
"Ending the death penalty is one way we begin to address the enduring consequences of slavery, racial terror, and state-sanctioned violence." - Lisa Holder, Equal Justice Society

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