Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

Only three inmates remain on federal death row and all have appeals that must be resolved before their executions can be carried out. Just hours after returning to the White House last Monday ...

As a member of the Veterans Group at San Quentin, we’re allowed to wear distinctive royal blue hats emblazoned with its ...

Mikhel is among the 37 inmates on federal death row whose death sentences Biden commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in December. Biden said he was acting because he ...

A woman was stabbed to death inside her San Juan Capistrano home on Saturday night, and her 25-year-old son was arrested, sheriff’s officials announced on Sunday, Jan. 26. Around 6:30 p.m. on ...

The execution of Marion Bowman Jr. is set for Jan. 31, but he is concerned that the drug used to put another man to death in November required two large doses more than 11 minutes apart.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO ... suspect arrested Police charged a homeless man in her death. "She has no bad bone in her body that I can think of," said Alvin Dandan, Corazon's nephew.

Just before he left office, Biden commuted most federal death row sentences to life in prison, making it more difficult for Trump to carry out another series of executions this time. On that note ...