Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino -- the man who the L.A. County D.A. alleges killed 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez -- deserves the death penalty, one U.S congressman says ... and, he blames California Governor Gavin Newsom for making that impossible.
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00:00It's hard to imagine a more horrifying set of circumstances.
00:05You know, Nate Hockman, I absolutely trust, you know, his judgment on public safety matters.
00:10He's doing a great job reversing the insanity that George Gascon brought to that jurisdiction.
00:16But, you know, this is a perfect example, though, of why you shouldn't have one person,
00:22the governor, overriding the will of the people of California,
00:25is that the people of our state have said in these most ghastly, horrific of circumstances,
00:30they want this to be an option for purposes not just of retribution and justice,
00:35but deterrence as well, because, you know, even if it has a relatively attenuated impact
00:42on deterring, you know, some of these heinous crimes,
00:45if there's some chance that the availability of capital punishment might have made a difference,
00:50might have stopped something like this from occurring,
00:52the people of California have said that that should be an option.
00:55Well, the answer is yes, because this is what the people of California voted for.
00:58This was put to a direct vote on the ballot in, I believe it was 2014 or 2016, maybe.
01:062016, I think it was.
01:07And the people of California overwhelmingly said that this should be an option
01:11in the most heinous of cases like this one.
01:16And Gavin Newsom took office and almost immediately took it upon himself
01:21to unilaterally overturn the will of the people of California and declare this moratorium,
01:28you know, mostly just to get himself positive press coverage or to, you know,
01:33promote himself to far left groups when he was literally overturning the results of a democratic election.
01:41And this is part and parcel of the misguided, reckless approach to criminal justice and public safety
01:49that Newsom has engineered in California that has caused violent crime to increase substantially during his tenure.
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