24 DAILY NEWS – When leading California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra was state attorney general, his office pushed the state Supreme Court to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ in order to execute him.
Background of the Case
Following the lead of his predecessor, former California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Becerra’s office battled a defense arguing that Robert Lewis, originally sentenced to death in 1991, was ineligible for execution due to intellectual disability. Lewis’s attorney, Robert Sanger, expressed disappointment with Becerra’s handling of the case, stating that it would have been appropriate for the AG to acknowledge Lewis’s intellectual disability and allow the matter to rest.
“I was kind of feeling like it would be a good time for the AG to say, ‘OK, we tried and he’s intellectually disabled. We got that determination made. Let’s
