LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California inmate on death row convicted of shooting to death a high school vice principal at his home during a robbery died of unknown causes on Thursday, prison officials ...

A federal appeals court has upheld California's deliberative death penalty, which keeps prisoners on death row for decades. Last year, a federal judge ruled that the long and dysfunctional process ...

In a concurring opinion, three justices wrote that the legislature or state Supreme Court must decide in the future whether mentally ill defendants should face the death penalty. California’s Supreme ...

The Lethal Injection Facility at San Quentin State Prison. California must commute remaining death sentences to life without parole to protect human dignity, align with restorative justice and make ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is getting raked over the coals for comments she made several years ago, suggesting criminals housed in a notorious California prison, ...