After Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he will commute the death sentences of 548 prisoners on death row in California, an Orange County family joined several district attorneys across the state to condemn the decision and express their outrage.
The father of Sam Herr, who was murdered and dismembered by his neighbor in 2010, said his family is deeply hurt by Newsom’s decision.
Daniel Wozniak was convicted in 2015 of killing Herr, an Army veteran, and his friend Julie Kibuishi, more than five years after the murders. Wozniak, who had been deeply in debt, schemed to kill Herr and steal $50,000 that Herr had saved from his service in Afghanistan, according to prosecutors…