Randy Kraft listens inside a courtroom in Santa Ana, California on August 11, 1989.
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California’s 548 death row prisoners could be spared execution under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan, announced last week, to commute every death sentence in the state to life in prison without parole. The list includes some of the most notorious and prolific convicted killers in the state’s history.

Newsom wrote in an open letter to California residents that his decision came “after nearly three decades of openly opposing state-sanctioned executions as an elected official.”