The death of California is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. We found 25 threads in 8 different communities, starting at Nov 5, 19:49 UTC; r/news, r/technology and r/gaming carry most of the discussion. Combined, those threads hold roughly 77.6K upvotes and 9.8K comments so far. People are searching for it on Google too (“cruise ship” in Google Trends for US).
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- NBC News: California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to commute all death sentences
“I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values,” he said.
- The Guardian: Cruise ship pianist rescued after nine hours treading water miles from shore
Man taken to hospital after falling off Royal Caribbean ship in Pacific Ocean, with Coast Guard investigating incident
- CBS News: Plane evacuated at California airport after
The Ontario Police Department said all passengers, including the individual detained, reboarded after crews failed to find explosive devices.
- BBC News: California Governor Gavin Newsom commutes sentences for state's 548 death row inmates
California has historically had the largest population of people on death row in the US.
- Los Angeles Times: Billionaire tax rejected on concern squeezing California's ultra-rich would harm the economy
Supporters of Proposition 40, a proposal to tax California billionaires to mostly fund healthcare, faced opposition from politicians, a teachers union and other powerful groups before residents cast their votes.
- CNN: Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners | CNN
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is commuting every death sentence in his state to a sentence of life in prison without parole – nearly eight years after declaring a moratorium on executions.
The numbers in the headlines
- $193 million: cited by a post in r/news
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/news | 6 | 49,283 | 5,851 | Nov 5, 19:49 UTC |
| r/technology | 2 | 10,131 | 668 | Nov 7, 16:32 UTC |
| r/gaming | 1 | 8,879 | 421 | Nov 9, 20:14 UTC |
| r/Economics | 4 | 3,588 | 1,100 | Nov 6, 19:34 UTC |
| r/UpliftingNews | 2 | 2,619 | 821 | Nov 5, 20:11 UTC |
| r/politics | 8 | 1,064 | 723 | Nov 6, 02:30 UTC |
| r/nottheonion | 1 | 1,742 | 93 | Nov 9, 19:45 UTC |
| r/canada | 1 | 323 | 143 | Nov 7, 05:04 UTC |
The biggest threads
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes all death sentencesr/news · 30,538 upvotes · 3,615 comments · Nov 5, 19:49 UTC · NBC News
- The tech billionaires who fled California are facing a new blue Texasr/technology · 9,901 upvotes · 526 comments · Nov 7, 16:32 UTC · The Washington Post
- Cruise ship pianist rescued after nine hours treading water miles from shore | Californiar/news · 9,116 upvotes · 635 comments · Nov 9, 02:07 UTC · The Guardian
- Plane evacuated at California airport after "Call of Duty" gameplay is mistaken for bomb threatr/gaming · 8,879 upvotes · 421 comments · Nov 9, 20:14 UTC · CBS News
- University of California buys Half Moon Bay’s Ritz-Carlton for $193 millionr/news · 4,807 upvotes · 452 comments · Nov 7, 02:29 UTC · coastsidenews.com
- Gavin Newsom clears death row, commutes sentences for hundreds of prisonersr/news · 4,130 upvotes · 608 comments · Nov 5, 19:49 UTC · calmatters.org
- Major strawberry grower for Driscoll's calls it quits in coastal Californiar/Economics · 2,916 upvotes · 456 comments · Nov 6, 19:34 UTC · sfgate.com
- California Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted the death sentences of 548 prisoners, converting them to life without the possibility of parole. It is the largest clearing of a US d…r/UpliftingNews · 1,587 upvotes · 395 comments · Nov 5, 22:28 UTC · The Guardian
- Google, Meta, and TikTok sue California over law banning addictive social media features for childrenr/nottheonion · 1,742 upvotes · 93 comments · Nov 9, 19:45 UTC · techspot.com
- California governor commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death rowr/UpliftingNews · 1,032 upvotes · 426 comments · Nov 5, 20:11 UTC · BBC News
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/news: “Gavin Newsom clears death row, commutes sentences for hundreds of prisoners”
- First link to NBC News shared, in r/news.
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/news (30,538 upvotes, 3,615 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/UpliftingNews: “California governor commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death row”
- The story reaches r/politics: “Newsom moves to empty Calif’s death row by commuting 548 sentences”
- The story reaches r/Economics: “Major strawberry grower for Driscoll's calls it quits in coastal California”
- The story reaches r/canada: “California shoppers freak over popular Canadian supermarket’s first city mega-location”
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/Economics.
Related searches
california death row · california death penalty · california death row inmates
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.