California governor to grant clemency to all 548 death row inmates in state
California's governor Gavy Newsom announced Thursday that he will commute all death sentences in the state to life without the possibility of parole.
California has historically had the largest population of people on death row in the US.
He said that "capital punishment is morally wrong." The state Supreme Court will have the final say in hundreds of those cases.
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