The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, it was announced Wednesday. On Friday, Soto-Martinez introduced a ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

Dylann Roof wanted to start a race war, but I feel like there is already such a war going on, and it plays out in our ...

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