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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate release. In 1996, when our Capital Habeas Unit was founded, Justice William Brennan reminded us that “those who govern must recognize that the framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity.”  Clemency serves as the essential safety valve in our criminal justice system—especially when that system imposes the most severe and constitutionally fraught punishment possible. As Governor Newsom recognizes, California’s death penalty does not operate reliably or fairly, nor does it serve a necessary or legitimate […]..