Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer and California Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Orange County DA lists the 49 local killers who would benefit from Newsom's death row clemency, including 3 cop killers

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Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer's office has released the cases of the 49 death row inmates from his county who stand to benefit from Gov. Gavin Newsom's move to commute the death sentences of all 548 condemned prisoners in California, Fox News reports.

Three of them killed police officers, Spitzer's office said. They include Kevin Dewayn Boyce, who shot off-duty Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Shayne York in the head during a 1997 robbery, Hung Thanh Mai, who killed California Highway Patrol Officer Don Joseph Burt in Fullerton in 1996, and Maurice Gerald Steskal, who shot Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Brad Riches 30 times with an AK-47 in 1999.

The list also includes Randy Steven Kraft, the "Freeway Killer," convicted of raping, torturing and murdering at least 16 young men and suspected in dozens more deaths, and "Cold Storage Killer" John Joseph Famalaro, who abducted and beat 23-year-old Denise Huber to death in 1991.

Spitzer is one of several California district attorneys pushing back against the clemency plan, and victims' families have asked a court to block the commutations.

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