Those who want voters to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom joined crime victim advocates at the state Capitol last week to accuse the governor of being too lenient on lawbreakers as the state experiences a new wave of crime. They castigated him for unilaterally suspending executions of murderers and making it easier for felons to win release from state prisons. âThe thing that really alarms me about what the governor did, is that itâs a continuation of policies to undermine the criminal justice system, and to put dangerous people back out onto the streets,â said Marc Klaas, whose daughter, Polly, was murdered 25 years ago by a recently released felon. The killer, Richard Allen Davis, is one of 737 murderers benefiting from Newsomâs death penalty suspension.