Larry Lasater was a police officer in Pittsburg, Calif., when he was shot and killed on April 23, 2005, in the line of duty. His killer is on death row.
When Lasater’s mother, Phyllis Loya, heard this month that Gov. Gavin Newsom was halting the state’s death penalty, she said she felt “like my heart had been ripped out. I was in shock. I just couldn’t believe it.”
