"Effective immediately, the prior administration's extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case is rescinded," the DA's office said in a statement announcing the policy change.

Nathan Hochman rescinded George Gascón’s “extreme and categorical policy forbidding prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in any case.”

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman is allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty again, reversing a ban put in place by his predecessor.