News California governor to freeze death penalty, says it’s ‘fundamentally immoral’ and biased March 12, 2019Marco della Cava, USA TODAYComments Off on California governor to freeze death penalty, says it’s ‘fundamentally immoral’ and biased Gov. Gavin Newsom is using the power of his office to act on his longstanding opposition to the death penalty in a state with 737 death row prisoners.