California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions in the US state, is now moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.The goal is to turn the death-row section of San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment”, and Newsom said on Monday that the plan is an outgrowth of his opposition to what he believes is a deeply flawed system.“The prospect of your ending up on death row has more to do with your wealth and race than it does your guilt or innocence,” he said. “We talk about justice, we preach justice, but as a nation, we don’t practice it on death row.”
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