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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Shakoor spent 15 years in prison where he learned to love cooking. He turned the passion into a career after his release ...

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

Brandon loved his life, even in its limited capacity on death row. He did not have a single disciplinary infraction in his decades behind bars. This is no small feat given that death row is like a ...

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 row in 2013. He was 53.