Death Penalty Scorecard True 0% 4 Checks Mostly True 0% 2 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 5 Checks False 0% 1 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 1 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Death Penalty Instagram posts stated on March 3, 2024 in an Instagram post: The U.S. Code states that a person convicted of treason would be “taken by the posse to the nearest busy intersection and at high noon hung by the neck until dead.” By Loreben Tuquero • March 6, 2024 Gwen Moore stated on July 26, 2019 in a tweet: "More than half of death row prisoners are people of color." By D.L. Davis • October 1, 2019 Gavin Newsom stated on March 13, 2019 in a news conference: California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size of the next largest state: Florida." By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2019 Toni Preckwinkle stated on January 29, 2019 in a campaign ad: Says Susana Mendoza is a supporter of the death penalty who could administer it herself and "‘...sleep like a baby at night…’" By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 10, 2019 Susana Mendoza stated on November 19, 2018 in in a debate appearance: "I was the deciding vote on abolishing the death penalty in the state of Illinois." By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 25, 2018 Jeff Bartos stated on October 6, 2018 in a televised debate: Capital punishment is a "specific deterrent with the most heinous crimes." By Colin Deppen • October 11, 2018 Phil Berger stated on December 8, 2017 in a press release: "Death penalty opponents like Roy Cooper and Josh Stein have imposed a de-facto moratorium on capital punishment." By Paul Specht • January 3, 2018 Larry Krasner stated on May 1, 2017 in the platform section of his campaign website: "Larry Krasner is the only candidate running for District Attorney who explicitly pledges to never seek the death penalty." By Anna Orso • May 3, 2017 Tariq El-Shabazz stated on April 28, 2017 in In a statement responding to a news article: "In my 30 year career including dozens of capital cases, not a single client of mine has ever been sentenced to death." By Mark Dent • May 2, 2017 Randolph Bracy stated on April 4, 2017 in in a New York Times op-ed: "African-Americans are grossly overrepresented on Florida’s death row." By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2017 Load More Latest Articles What Kept Kamala Harris So ‘Cautious’ As California’s Attorney General? By Chris Nichols • August 13, 2020
