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

[RockRaven]

14. Some Californians tried to get rid of the death penalty by ballot measure recently...

and that proposition lost narrowly, while a competing proposition -- which was placed on the ballot specifically to submarine the aforementioned one by enacting instead a speeding up of executions to reduce expense -- won narrowly.

The voters in that election were wrong, in terms of morality and in terms of justice. Even if Newsom is doing this for entirely self-aggrandizing reasons (which, fwiw, I doubt), I must say that in this case I don't care because the result is the ethically correct position. Lordy, if every politician did the morally right thing for selfish and egotistical reasons, the world would be a better place.