Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

Also, Stacey Solomon returns with a new series of Sort Your Life Out and Storyville meets the San Quentin prisoners training ...

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

My first day in prison, and I get jumped. How did I get here? It was my first day at San Quentin but it wasn ... I would choose life over death. I did what I’d done as a Marine recruit.

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison ...

Surrounded by four sheriff’s deputies, Alvarez, 26, looked squarely at San Mateo County ... faces a tough life as a death-row inmate away from the regular prison population.

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place ... received life in prison without parole ...

Could death ... the 37 inmates formerly on death row could be sentenced to death again. The inmates whose sentences were commuted by Biden were instead sentenced to serve life in prison without ...

He also commuted the death sentences of six prisoners to life imprisonment. Sanwo-Olu pardons 56 inmates and changed death sentences of 6 prisoners to life in prison. Photo credit ... the sentence of ...