Chad Arimura

You wanna know who Gavin Newsom just commuted on California’s death row? Lemme tell you… Richard Allen Davis, who broke into a 12-year-old’s house during a slumber party, kidnapped Polly Klaas at knifepoint, raped her, and strangled her. Isauro Aguirre, who spent months torturing 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, beating him, shooting him with a BB gun, forcing him to eat cat feces, and locking him in a cabinet before ultimately beating him to death. Alejandro Avila, who snatched 5-year-old Samantha Runnion off the street, raped her, and murdered her. Cary Stayner, the Yosemite handyman who murdered three women and a teenage girl in 1999, including beheading one of his victims. Charles Ng, convicted of killing 11 people, including men, women, and two infants, alongside Leonard Lake in the 1980s. Lonnie Franklin Jr., the “Grim Sleeper,” convicted of murdering multiple women in Los Angeles over several decades. Investigators believe the actual body count is higher. Scott Peterson, who murdered his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son in 2002, dumping her body in the San Francisco Bay. Wayne Adam Ford, the truck driver who strangled and dismembered at least four women before showing up at a sheriff’s station with a severed breast in his pocket. Joseph Naso, the “Alphabet Killer,” convicted of murdering four women with matching initials between 1977 and 1994. Christopher Cheary, convicted of raping, torturing, and murdering his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, Sophia Acosta. And these are just some of the inmates. Newsom called this a “righteous action.” Righteous for whom? Because I guarantee you the victims’ families don’t see it that way.