Entries tagged with “Matthew Stepka”

Aug 11, 2025

Business Leader Calls for End to California’s ​“Broken” Death Penalty System

A promi­nent busi­ness exec­u­tive and mem­ber of a larg­er coali­tion of over 500 glob­al busi­ness lead­ers is call­ing on California Governor Gavin Newsom to com­mute all death sen­tences in California to life with­out parole. In a July 2025 op-ed, Matthew Stepka, a mem­ber of Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty, calls California’s death penal­ty sys­tem a fail­ure of both jus­tice and fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty. > ​“If any com­pa­ny or prod­uct I eval­u­at­ed had an error rate…