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By order of the Governor: California suspend executions

"Incompatible with the values of California"- with this justification, the Governor of the state, Newsom, all of the executions. President Trump responded wit

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By order of the Governor: California suspend executions

"Incompatible with the values of California"- with this justification, the Governor of the state, Newsom, all of the executions. President Trump responded with little enthusiasm.

In the U.S. state of California to impose a Moratorium on executions. Governor Gavin Newsom wants to today and a corresponding Executive order to sign.

In a pre-release Statement, he described the death penalty as incompatible with the values of California. You don't fit in to a "civilised society", which claimed the leadership role in the world. "The deliberate Killing of another Person is wrong."

737 "cold-blooded killers" in California's prisons

US President Donald Trump attacked Newsom because of his decision to violently. The Governor sat down with the suspension of the death penalty for "737 cold-blooded killers" will of the Voters. "Friends and families of the always-forgotten victims are not excited, and I'm not!" wrote Trump on Twitter.

In Death row the most populous U.S. state are currently 737 prisoners. The are more than in any other Federal state and represents about a quarter of the death row prisoners throughout the United States.

last execution in 2006,

California Gourverneur Newsom, a member of the Democrats, took office in January. He has Long been regarded as an opponent of the death penalty. According to him, is now closed as well as the execution cell on the prison island of San Quentin in San Francisco.

Before he took over the governorship, was Newsom mayor of San Francisco. In this time, he opened the marriage for Gays and lesbians.

In California, had been enforced a death sentence, most recently in 2006; in the following years, legal challenges prevented again and again, the implementation of Hinricht. Since the re-introduction of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, in California, 13 prisoners were executed.

in Total there are in the United States for the imposition and enforcement the death penalty for two decades, a significant decline. In 1999, were executed according to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, a total of 98 prisoners, 2018 25. This year, there have been three executions.

In 20 of the 50 U.S. States abolished the death penalty already. Three other States had already imposed in California for a Moratorium on executions.

Washington state abolishes the death penalty, 12.10.2018 Amnesty: number of executions goes back, 12.10.2018 Atlas |USA |Sacramento

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