More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders on the same day has been put to death by lethal injection ...

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

California's death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 ...

After he killed his 43-year-old girlfriend, Stanko then drove 25 miles north the Conway home of one of her friends, a 74-year-old man named Henry Lee Turner, a retired Air Force master sergeant and a ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer ...

Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as "botched" and raised concerns about execution methods.

A new district attorney in California is rejecting her predecessor’s recommendations to resentence death row inmates. Records obtained by CalMatters show at least four cases in which Alameda ...

Stephen Christopher Stanko who murdered his girlfriend, Laura Ling, and friend, Henry Turner, in 2005 was sentenced to death in two separate murder trials.

PREVIOUS COVERAGE: S.C. Supreme Court sets execution date for Horry, Georgetown Co. death row inmate Stanko has until Friday to decide if he wants to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the ...