The death of California is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. We found 4 threads in 2 different communities, starting at Nov 5, 19:49 UTC; r/news and r/UpliftingNews carry most of the discussion. Combined, those threads hold roughly 17.4K upvotes and 2.6K comments so far.
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- NBC News: California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to commute all death sentences
“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values,” he said.
- BBC News: California Governor Gavin Newsom commutes sentences for state's 548 death row inmates
California has historically had the largest population of people on death row in the US.
- CNN: Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners | CNN
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is commuting every death sentence in his state to a sentence of life in prison without parole – nearly eight years after declaring a moratorium on executions.
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/news | 3 | 16,332 | 2,258 | Nov 5, 19:49 UTC |
| r/UpliftingNews | 1 | 1,029 | 389 | Nov 5, 20:11 UTC |
The biggest threads
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes all death sentencesr/news · 14,206 upvotes · 1,822 comments · Nov 5, 19:49 UTC · NBC News
- Gavin Newsom clears death row, commutes sentences for hundreds of prisonersr/news · 1,949 upvotes · 362 comments · Nov 5, 19:49 UTC · calmatters.org
- California governor commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death rowr/UpliftingNews · 1,029 upvotes · 389 comments · Nov 5, 20:11 UTC · BBC News
- Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisonersr/news · 177 upvotes · 74 comments · Nov 5, 19:55 UTC · CNN
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/news: “Gavin Newsom clears death row, commutes sentences for hundreds of prisoners”
- First link to NBC News shared, in r/news.
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/news (14,206 upvotes, 1,822 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/UpliftingNews: “California governor commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death row”
Related searches
california death row · california death penalty · california death row inmates
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.