He spent 19 years in isolation on death row. Then the handcuffs came off (opens in new tab)

Gov. Gavin Newsom gave condemned prisoners a chance to live differently when he suspended the death penalty. They are not free by any means, but they now have opportunities to grow. “We were literally dying there in East Block by ourselves. That life right there is not life. We had no program, no anything. It was bad,” one prisoner said.