Two men who were freed last year from state prison over prosecutorial misconduct have now filed suit against Alameda County, ...

There are currently 45 women in the United States on death row, including Taylor Parker. Inside their crimes and information ...

Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...

San Quentin Rehabilitation Center has opened its new honor dorm program, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week. The dorm, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A legal case aiming to overturn California's death penalty law by showing that it is applied in a racist manner will move forward ...

SACRAMENTO — Support for California’s death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in more than 50 years after a judge ruled it unconstitutional, according to a Field Poll released Friday. The poll ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than ...

On July 2, 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, ruling that capital punishment does not violate ...

The Marshall Project analyzed over 9,000 death sentences handed down since states brought the punishment back ...