California sued over policy that could free serial killers as Laci Peterson’s friend sounds alarm

The family and friends of Laci Peterson are among the advocates of California murder victims opposing a new parole board policy that would open a path to recommend resentencing or clemency for serial killers, mass shooters and other convicts serving sentences of life without parole when it goes into effect later this year.

“We’re talking about people that would have been qualified for the death penalty, OK? So they are the worst of the worst,” said Anne Marie Schubert, a former Sacramento District Attorney who is now the president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit...