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California says it’s starting to close country’s second-biggest death row

A man is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin state prison.
A man is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin state prison. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

California is moving to dismantle the second-largest death row in the US, three years after the governor placed a moratorium on executions.

The state will move all incarcerated people in the death row section of San Quentin state prison to other prisons within two years, officials said.

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