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 Randolph Bracy stated on April 4, 2017 in a New York Times op-ed: "There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders." By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2017 Tom Steyer stated on September 14, 2016 in a press release.: "Since 1978, California has spent $5 billion to put 13 people to death." By Chris Nichols • September 21, 2016 Yes On 62 campaign to abolish California's death penalty stated on August 1, 2016 in a twitter image: "California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere." By Chris Nichols • August 12, 2016 Load More Latest Articles What Kept Kamala Harris So ‘Cautious’ As California’s Attorney General? By Chris Nichols • August 13, 2020 Latest promises about Death Penalty Joe Biden Eliminate the federal death penalty Biden commutes sentences of all but three convicts on federal death row | January 8, 2025 Latest promises about Death Penalty
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