Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

California has not executed anyone since 2006 and advocates are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to grant clemency to all those ...

On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out what would turn out to be the last execution in the Golden State in the next two ...

When two-time Sac State grad James L'Etoile retired after decades working in law enforcement, he launched a whole new career ...

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures who died this year.

An Oklahoma death row inmate on death row for a double murder that happened nearly 20 years ago will make his case before the ...

Among the cases that are headed back to court is that of Robert Roberson, who argues he was wrongfully convicted of killing his daughter based on now-debunked science.

Pike has been on death row since 1996. She murdered a woman in Knoxville with the help of her then-boyfriend. She is the only ...

Protesters outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted Clifford ...

Robert Roberson, Brittany Holberg, and David Wood have upcoming appeals or overturned convictions under review in Texas in ...

Kendrick Simpson, scheduled to die Feb. 12 for killing two men outside an Oklahoma City nightclub in 2006, will make his case ...

One inmate is dead and another is under investigation for murder following a violent altercation earlier this month at the ...