California Gov. Gavin Newsom was about 10 years old when he met a man wrongfully convicted of murder.

California's death row is crowded with inmates, many of whom have been there for decades. Newsom is expected to say on Wednesday that he believes capital punishment to be costly and burdensome.

Loi Vi Tran, 40, was charged with killing his brother-in-law — 45-year-old Stephen Tran of El Monte, Cal. — in a bowling alley parking lot in El Monte on Sept. 16, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.