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California Voters Turn Down Billionaire Tax Measure, Proposition 40
California voters have turned back an effort to make the state the first in the nation to tax billionaires based on their net worth,...
‘A Gut-Wrenching Pain’: Victims’ Families Outraged by Newsom’s Decision to Commute California Death Sentences
Phyllis Loya can still picture the day her life changed forever. On April 23, 2005, her son, Pittsburg police Officer Larry Lasater, responded to...
Newsom Moves to Commute Death Sentences for Hundreds, Aiming to Clear California’s Death Row
Gov. Gavin Newsom is moving to empty California's death row entirely, announcing plans to commute the sentences of 548 condemned prisoners in what stands...
Families of Victims Decry Newsom’s Death Row Decision as a Fresh Wound
Marilyn (Sandy) Friend remembers the exact image that haunts her still: the knife wounds across her 8-year-old son's face, the only part of his...
Newsom’s Death Row Commutations Face Uncertain Legal Future
Governor Gavin Newsom made it clear this week that he still has plenty of power left to wield before leaving office, issuing a sweeping...
