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State Spotlight: California Death Row Shrinks Sharply in 2024, Driven by the Resentencing of At Least 45 People to Life Sentences or Less

In the two Bay Area coun­ties of Santa Clara and Alameda, dis­trict attor­neys con­cerned about racism and due process in the admin­is­tra­tion of the death penal­ty con­duct­ed reviews of all eli­gi­ble death sen­tences in their juris­dic­tions. The result­ing changes in sen­tences in those coun­ties alone account for almost two-thirds of the state’s resen­tenc­ings in 2024. 

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