Newsom’s refusal to impose the death penalty could hurt him politically if he runs for president. So I wasn’t challenging that.”Currently, 21 of the 50 states impose the death penalty. The remaining 29 either have no death penalty or paused executions due to executive action — including California, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Advertisement“Nationally, the death penalty has been carried out so infrequently for the last 50 years that I don’t see people voting based on your position on [the] death penalty,” Eckery said. Pianezzi escaped the death penalty by a single vote and served 13 years in prison.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 19, 2024 20:27 UTC