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- California Governor Gavin Newsom is seriously considering commuting the sentences of all 563 death-row inmates.
- He intensified discussions after a botched Tennessee execution, consulting advisers by phone, meetings and Zoom.
- If approved, the commutations would clear 563 inmates, surpassing Gov. George Ryan’s 167 in 2003.
- California, which has not executed a prisoner in 20 years, sees its leading successor candidate pledge to keep the moratorium.