A man sentenced to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a Seal Beach woman died in prison on Monday, Dec. 22 at the age of ...

Prosecutor Nathan Hochman is playing politics by floating the death penalty for the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer ...

Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional Wednesday. The state put a hold on executions in 2005, ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Sister Helen Prejean and 130 religious leaders in California on Tuesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences for all of the state's death row prisoners. The call comes ...

Former death row inmate Nanon Williams reportedly received an email from Rob Reiner’s wife Michele just hours before she was ...

It's been nine years since the death penalty was carried out in California; death row is packed with 750 inmates. A ruling this week by the US Supreme Court may pave the way to restoring the practice, ...

LOS ANGELES (WPVI) -- A jury recommended on Wednesday that Isauro Aguirre, convicted of the torture and murder of an 8-year-old Palmdale, California boy, be sentenced to death. KABC-TV reports, last ...

A white supremacist gang member on California's death row attacked a guard, who was slashed in the hand, corrections officials said. Todd Givens, 51, tried to cut the neck of a correctional officer ...

Last July a California judge ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Ernest D Jones. The reasoning behind the judge’s ruling? It’s taking California too long to kill inmates on Death ...