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Mr Newsom moved to grant clemency to 548 people sentenced to death in California, of whom 529 are men and 19 are women, according to numbers provided by his office. The state constitution requires the California Supreme Court’s approval to grant clemency to anyone convicted of a felony more than once. About 382 of those commutations, or roughly 70 per cent, would require approval, according to Mr Newsom’s office. No-one has been executed in the state since 2006 ,and California has the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere.