Nathan Hochman is reversing the policy of his predecessor so prosecutors can once again consider pursuing the death penalty in certain ‘exceedingly rare’ types of murder cases. California ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

California's Supreme Court on Thursday ... After the jury deadlocked in the penalty phase, a new jury returned a death verdict. McGhee is imprisoned in Kern Valley State Prison.

The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.’s most notorious gang figures Thursday, saying a juror who likely would have spared Timothy McGhee from ...

Wilson remains on death row. Finally, Eric Huston, the perpetrator of the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting in Olivehurst, California, was sentenced to death in 1993. The 1992 shooting was the ...

Jones is now housed at California State Prison, Sacramento. The fact that San Quentin's death row is in effect extinct makes Jones' work historically relevant, Kinmont said. Bookseller Ben Kinmont ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has already imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in his state ... in cases of impeachment), upon such conditions as he may think proper, subject to ...