Gavin Newsoms rambling word-salad excuse for saving heinous child killers from the ultimate punishment

Gavin Newsom offered a rambling justification last week for his decision to commute the death sentences of 548 convicted murderers on California’s Death Row.The letter is stunning in what it reveals about the sheer arrogance of this individual we apparently elected as king. On one hand, the governor claims that the “discretion to seek, impose, and uphold death sentences in individual cases remains, as ever, in the hands of prosecutors, juries, and courts.”  Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.Please provide a valid email.

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Great. Thirty years in elected office and we get Captain Obvious stating what everyone knows. He follows up with bragging about how he has the power to overturn the will of the people, claiming “that power exists for moments when law as applied cannot be squared with justice. For me, this is that moment.”King Gavin claims that California’s system for administering the death penalty is a failure.But that rings hollow when he had eight years in office as governor to fix the system and chose not to do anything other than issue a moratorium.

The governor neither signed nor proposed new laws on capital punishment.Worse, by commuting the sentences of 548 Death Row inmates to serve their sentences instead as “life without the possibility of parole” (LWOP), Newsom is paving the way for these inmates to hit the streets as free men one day.  Just look at how the Legislature has been busy over the last two decades minimizing prison sentences and criminal accountability in every way possible.This year, the governor signed AB 2727 to raise the minimum age for “elder parole” to 65.

But he only did that because, six years to the day before, he signed AB 3234, which lowered the age to 50, leading to the potential release of dangerous offenders.The de facto moratori...