Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

San Quentin's death row was itself declared at an end. Over the last five years, its cells have been systematically emptied and its condemned men dispersed to other prisons. In the spring of 2022 ...

David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men transferred to other prisons. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...

Kraft, now 80, was convicted in 1989 of brutalizing and killing 16 men over a decade in California and sentenced to death. He remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison and has denied ...

(K.C. Alfred / The San Diego Union-Tribune ... and Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row, who was convicted of murdering an expectant mother and cutting her still-living baby from her ...

Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. His attorneys are ...

Five Mexican nationals are facing charges after a small boat carrying more than a dozen people capsized off the coast of San Diego ... in Aliens Resulting in Death and Bringing in Aliens for ...

Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted murderer should be spared execution because he has ...