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 comparable to the death penalty — where…