A California prosecutor is attempting an unprecedented endeavor: ensure every death row case in his jurisdiction is ...

The family of a woman who was strangled to death last year during a conjugal visit with her husband at a Northern California ...

LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that county prosecutors will once again be permitted to seek the death penalty.

A California prosecutor who says he is “disillusioned” with the death penalty is attempting something unprecedented: ensuring every death row case within his jurisdiction is reclassified to ...

California, which hasn't executed a condemned inmate since 2006, has the largest death row population in the country, according to the nonprofit.

California hasn’t put any inmates to death since 2006 and there’s even been a moratorium in place on executions for more than ...

Lawyers for Louisiana and death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. have agreed to unseal the state's nitrogen gas execution ...

The other states - Arizona, California, Missouri and Wyoming - do not list a specific gas to use. According to protocol, Alabama death row inmates who select a lethal gas execution are placed on a ...

California currently has 592 condemned inmates, with 206 of them from LA County. A majority have been transferred from the former death row at San Quentin State Prison to be housed with the ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman said he has leaned on what he's learned through Buddhism to help him improve his life, including when he was recently served with a death warrant. "I was served a death ...

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states, while three others -- California, Oregon and Pennsylvania -- have moratoriums in place. President Donald Trump is a proponent of ...