Five years after Jamall Brown died in a Riverside County California jail cell, his father learned the truth from leaked video and documents.

The conviction marks the first-ever guilty verdict by a jury in a fentanyl-related homicide trial in Fresno County.

SOLEDAD — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the Jan. 29 death of an ...

Killer Wade Wilson doesn't sit alone on death row when it comes to inmates tied to killings in SW Florida. See all the faces.

A DOUBLE-MURDERER told the families of his victims that his execution would “traumatize more people” and begged for forgiveness moments before he died. Killer Charles Victor Thompson, ...

A Texas man is facing execution for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago in suburban ...

Wesley Brownlee is accused of killing six people in Stockton and Oakland. Under California law, that makes him eligible for the death penalty.

Hundreds of chanting, placard-toting, anti-death penalty demonstrators marched on Sunday to a protest area outside the Staples Center, home of the Democratic National Convention in downtown Los ...

An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, on the Central Coast and Northern California, causing what officials describe as an ...

Leroy McGill is scheduled for execution on May 20 for a 2002 attack during which he set a couple on fire. McGill was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after the attack ...

Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes columnist.

In an unprecedented escalation of state-sanctioned vengeance, the Trump administration has launched a systematic campaign to dismantle the humanitarian protections afforded to 37 federal prisoners ...