Death penalty cases are increasingly rare in the Bay Area, especially after Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a moratorium on executions in 2019 and moved to dismantle San Quentin prison’s death row.

Serial killer Richard Ramirez died 12 years ago13. Here's everything to know about how Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the so-called ...

Death penalty cases are increasingly rare in the Bay Area, especially after Gov. Gavin Newsom implemented a moratorium on executions in 2019 and moved to dismantle San Quentin prison’s death row.

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.

San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, was also where condemned inmates sat on death row until this year. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

He had been admitted to the hospital earlier in the week from San Quentin State Prison, where he had been on death row since receiving his sentence in 1989. How old was Richard Ramirez when he died?

The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben Gutierrez gives him a potential path to have evidence tested that his lawyers say would ...

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

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 ...

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 ...