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 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 ...

William Bonin, dubbed the “Freeway Killer,” r*ped, tortured, and murdered at least fourteen boys and young men across Southern California between 1979 and 1980 before his arrest in a green Ford Econol ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied ...

More than three years after his execution was stayed, an upcoming hearing will address death row inmate Ramiro Ibarra’s ...