Prosecutors in San Mateo County said they will seek the death penalty against the man suspected of ... and closed the state's execution chamber at San Quentin, ... 587 people on death row.

Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, was sentenced to death in 1976 for killing and kidnapping a mother of two young children earlier that year.

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk about the state's model of prison reform.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin's baseball team has been a prison yard institution for 123 seasons, but this year something happened for the first time. On a crisp, unusually clear Friday ...

How to Survive shares six survival tricks learned inside San Quentin prison and how they apply to extreme situations. They offer practical advice on staying safe in confined, high-risk environments.

California proposal would move some inmates into single-occupancy cells 03:21. In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are ...

The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office ruled 25-year-old Kyle Harrison’s death an accident and found he died from the “toxic effects of methadone, amitriptyline and gabapentin,” the San ...

Much of Wagstaffe’s work came amid an unusual run of death penalty cases in San Mateo County. From 1983 through 1994, prosecutors in the Peninsula sought the death penalty 18 times, winning ...

'Last Meals,' the Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook starring prison drama from Oscar nominee Ramin Bahrani has given international buyers an appetite.

The death row population dropped to 29 after inmate Wendell Grissom was executed in March and inmate Richard Glossip won on appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court in February. More in U.S.

The San Antonio Police Department sent officers to the South Side home of Jonathan Joss, the King of the Hill actor slain Sunday in a shooting, a total of 74 times since January, the Express-News ...