Talk:David Carpenter

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved per request. - GTBacchus^(talk) 16:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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David Carpenter (serial killer) → David Carpenter – Primary topic. Page views: 3,478, (partial title match) 341, (partial title match) 281, 214, 148, (partial title match) 88. Marcus Qwertyus 08:10, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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Not commuted

The article claims that Carpenter's sentence has been reduced to life without parole. I believe that is incorrect. Governor Newsom has instituted a moratorium on executions as long as he is in office, and has abolished "death row" understood as a physical location where all condemned male inmates are held, but he has not actually commuted many (if any) death sentences. This LA Times article, published today, describes Carpenter in the present tense as "California’s oldest condemned inmate".

Formally speaking we have a clash of sources here, but the existing source looks poor, even compared to a newspaper, and seems to have misunderstood what it meant that Newsom had gotten rid of death row. --Trovatore (talk) 21:34, 1 May 2025 (UTC)