{"id":80957,"date":"2026-11-05T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/gavin-newsom-commutes-more-than-500-death-sentences-in-california\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:55:10","slug":"gavin-newsom-commutes-more-than-500-death-sentences-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/gavin-newsom-commutes-more-than-500-death-sentences-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom commutes more than 500 death sentences in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat\u2019s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike\u2019s failed execution<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>\u2019s governor, has commuted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/capital-punishment\">death sentences<\/a> of more than 500 people on the state\u2019s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrat<\/a>\u2019s mass commutation at the end of his term has converted all of the state\u2019s death sentences to life without the possibility of parole, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/07\/us\/newsom-death-row-prisoners-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFE.nepQ.drX30miPbvod&amp;smid=url-share\">largest<\/a> clearing of any US death row in modern history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/gavin-newsom-commutes-death-sentences-california\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat\u2019s move prevents these people from executions under future governors, after Christa Pike\u2019s failed execution Gavin Newsom, California\u2019s governor, has commuted the death sentences of more than 500 people on the state\u2019s death row on Thursday, a move that ensures they can never be executed under future administrations. The Democrat\u2019s mass commutation at the end &#8230; <a title=\"Gavin Newsom commutes more than 500 death sentences in California\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/gavin-newsom-commutes-more-than-500-death-sentences-in-california\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gavin Newsom commutes more than 500 death sentences in California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}