Two Oregon district attorneys, as well as the relatives of three homicide victims, have sued the state’s Democratic governor, accusing her of failing to follow the state’s clemency procedures and unlawfully freeing more than 1,000 inmates.

If Gov. Kate Brown’s clemency powers remain unchallenged, it could mean the release of violent offenders, including a man who stabbed his grandmother to death, another who killed a woman with the mental capacity of a 12-year-old and then burned her body beneath a bridge, and a then-17-year-old who shot his older brother three times in the head.

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