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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The suspects sat in prison for three years waiting for ... He was committed to San Quentin’s death row. "I felt so relieved for these families, and they were just full of emotion, extremely ...

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