More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.

California's death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 ...

California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. Gov. Gavin Newsom still has a year and a half left in office, but advocates are starting their call now for him to commute, or reduce, all death sentences in ...

A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont wants to delay the government’s decision on whether to ...

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

Adel Ramos was given a death penalty sentence for the killing of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan​ in June 2019, the ...

The suspect is believed to belong to a cult of vegan anarchists that has been linked to several other killings in Pennsylvania and California.