Gavin Newsom expected to take executive action to abolish CA death penalty

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6. CA death penalty was ruled unconstitutional in 2006

I think it was due to cruel and unusual punishment because of the "drug cocktail" that has not always been effective. Our Supreme Court declared it unlawful in 1972, the it was reinstated by the legislature in 1977. In 1994, the gas chamber was ruled to be cruel and unusual. In 2006, the "three drug protocol" was also ruled to be cruel and unusual. No one has been executed since that time.

I am not questioning the moratorium, I am questioning why Newsom is making this an "executive action".

P.S. I go by San Quentin every time I take the ferry into the city. If there are inmates in the yard, they wave. We wave back.
It's not that I don't believe some people should be locked up for the good of society (I'm talking to you, Scott Peterson. Laci's body washed up near our dog park!) but I can't justify taking a life.

Yes, I eat meat. Don't flame me for that.

Also, I hope I got all the dates correct.