MORE: Here's a look at the transformation of San Quentin State Prison Reducing the population will also lead to getting rid of death row. "We suggest very strongly the elimination of death row.

San Quentin State Prison is the only death row for male inmates in the state. Gov.. Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in 2019. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file California has a ...

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump leaned heavily into nativist attacks on immigrants that portrayed them as ...

Now, after 11 years on San Quentin’s death row, Richard J. Hirschfield has died of natural causes, the California Department of Corrections ... listed in Washington state. There, Hirschfield ...

After Joe Biden commuted 37 death sentences, advocates call on Gavin Newsom to do the same for 605 California death row ...

For long anxious months, the 83 in mates of death row at California’s San Quentin prison waited for the State Supreme Court to rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson.

A California judge denies a petition for release or retrial but the legal team vows to continue to fight the conviction ...

and Governor Newsom has moved these inmates into the regular prison population, so there is no longer a death row at San Quentin. So, in a way, since nobody's been executed since 2008 and there's ...

In 2004, Scott Peterson was convicted and later sentenced to death for killing his pregnant wife Laci and dumping her body in ...

“Because I’ve been a death row nurse for 10 years.” Simon has worked at San Quentin for 19 years total ... the healthcare situation was so dire inside the State of California’s overcrowded prison ...