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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Federal prosecutors have until Aug. 30 to let the judge know if they plan to seek execution, and Earnest is due back in federal court in Sept. 8.
43% : His orders remain in effect as long as he is in office, although prosecutors may still seek capital punishment, as happened in Earnest's case.
42% : It was the maximum possible punishment he could face, short of the death penalty, which prosecutors had earlier signaled they had planned to pursue.
39% : The federal case had stalled somewhat over the past year as the court awaited a decision on whether the Department of Justice would be seeking the death penalty.
27% : A month before the shooting, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order putting a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in California, and closed the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison.

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