Not only is Newsom aiming for a more humane environment at the prison, but emptying Death Row saves money. The average prisoner in San Quentin costs the state around $60,000 a year, but those on the ...

A condemned inmate at a Southern California prison was beaten to death by three other inmates this week, the California ...

A24's 'Sing Sing' and Netflix's 'Daughters' screened alongside films from incarcerated directors at the event, where the red ...

A mother sentenced to death for killing her four children in their San Marcos home 25 years ago has been resentenced to life ...

Learn more about the many serial killers who terrorized the state of California, including the Zodiac Killer, Night Stalker, and Golden State Killer.

By Nigel Duara, Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment for years. In 1994, they voted for harsher ...

The victims include a 4- to 6-year-old girl found dead in 1962, an infant boy found in 1983 and three men and three women ...

He is mostly forgotten today. But Caryl Chessman’s death penalty conviction dominated the debate about capital punishment for ...

Alberto Martinez, a convicted murderer who was involved in the Mexican Mafia, was attacked and killed by three inmates at ...

When Wayne Lussman, of Fort Dodge, started working on turning a 1929 Ford Model AA that consisted of a pair of rusty fenders, ...

Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the ...

A mafia member on death row was beaten to death by three other inmates at a prison in Southern California, officials said. No ...