Essential Politics: It`s not legality but legitimacy that`s being debated over Newsom`s halt to death penalty
(LA Times Books)

There´s been little serious dispute that Article V, Section 8 of the California Constitution says the governor - under any conditions he `deems proper` - may grant a reprieve from a prisoner´s sentence, even if that sentence is death. But it´s the properness of Gov. Gavin Newsom´s decision to block...