On March thirteen, 2019, three years after voters narrowly rejected its repeal, Newsom declared a moratorium on the state’s dying penalty, stopping any execution within the state as lengthy as he remained governor. The move additionally led to the withdrawal of the state’s current lethal injection protocol and the execution chamber’s closure at San Quentin State Prison. On February eleven, 2015, Newsom announced that he was opening a campaign account for governor within the 2018 elections, permitting him to raise funds for a marketing campaign to succeed Jerry Brown as Governor of California. On June 5, 2018, he completed in the top two of the nonpartisan blanket major, and defeated Republican John H. Cox by a landslide within the gubernatorial election on November 6.