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- ADVERTISEMENT - More than 63,000 inmates convicted of violent crimes will be eligible for good behavior credits that shorten their sentences by one-third instead of the one-fifth that had been in place since 2017. That includes nearly 20,000 inmates who are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole. The new rules take effect Saturday but it will be months or years before any inmates go free earlier. Corrections officials say the goal is to reward inmates who better themselves while critics said the move will endanger the public. Under the change, more than 10,000 prisoners convi...

Blue states chart diverging paths on death penalty debate Sam Metz Tags:  Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this July 11, 2018, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to Ely State Prison, the location of Nevada's execution chamber near Ely, Nev. Three Democratic-majority legislatures have passed measures abolishing the death penalty since 2019, but party control could be a less decisive factor in Nevada as state lawmakers debate a repeal measure. Unlike Colorado, New Hampshire and Virginia, some of Nevada's most powerful Democrats support the death penalty. A...

Court rejects ACLU attempt to bar California DAs from execution case FacebookTwitterEmail Three district attorneys, including Steve Wagstaffe of San Mateo County, have asked federal courts to let them intervene in a long-running suit by Death Row inmates over whether lethal injection procedures in California are so flawed that they violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.Gabrielle Lurie / Special to The Chronicle A state appeals court has refused to consider the American Civil Liberties Union’s claim that California law bars local district attorneys from taking part i...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A death row inmate is escorted back to his East Block cell after spending time in the yard at San Quentin State Prison. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Newsom’s candidates for state AG critical of death penalty LOS ANGELES — Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty. With current Attorney General Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Bid...

SACRAMENTO —  Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a moratorium on executions in California, he is preparing to appoint a state attorney general from a field of potential candidates that includes some of the state’s leading critics of the death penalty. With current Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra up for Senate confirmation as President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services, criminal justice reform activists have recommended for the job candidates including a district attorney who has stopped seeking the death penalty in murder cases and elected officials who have backed unsuc...