SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has formally urged Governor Gavin Newsom to use his executive powers to commute the death sentences of all individuals currently on death row in California.
Adopted on Sept. 16, Resolution 436-25 states that “California has the largest death row in the nation,” with 565 people sentenced to death. The measure calls for a sweeping commutation as a moral and legal step toward ending the state’s capital punishment system.
San Francisco voters have twice supported repealing the death penalty — in 2012 and 2016 — underscoring the city’s opposition to executions and its commitment to criminal justice reform, according to the resolution…