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Two inmates on California's death row were found dead over the weekend in incidents that officials are investigating as a pair of suicides. Andrew Urdiales, 54, and Virendra Govin, 51, were found ...

The governor’s budget proposal anticipates an average of 20 new arrivals on death row yearly. He proposes putting them in 97 cells on the first two tiers of the five-tier South Block.

Dec. 14 (UPI) --California prison officials said a death row inmate was found dead in his cell early Monday. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement that ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

Perez had been on death row since 2002. He was convicted in the 1998 home invasion robbery turned murder of 46-year-old Lafayette woman Janet Daher. The last California death row inmate to be ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — A prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on California’s death row for beating to death a woman and her 2-year-old daughter during a burglary died early Wednesday of ...

Newsom's directive to dismantle death row did not alter the sentences for condemned men and women. But it did dramatically upend their lives. Hundreds of death row inmates from San Quentin have ...