"A few days before his execution, Brandon’s family visited him for the last time. After the visit, Brandon told me there was ...

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

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

He was then placed on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Due to California's moratorium on the death penalty, no executions have been carried out in the state since 2006. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

For more than two decades, the slaying of two UC Davis students stumped law enforcement, until DNA evidence finally led ...

Five months before the murders, Hirschfield had just been released from prison after serving time ... in January 2013 and put on death row in San Quentin, according to CDCR. The Bee interviewed ...

The man convicted in the 1980 killing of two young UC Davis students has died in prison. Officials with the California ...

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

Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who was sentenced to death following his heinous crimes in California, died while on death ...

I began writing to death row prisoners after reading Bryan Stevenson’s book ... all people that it can create a bond between a “suburban white girl,” as one San Quentin friend calls me, and a former ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...