City Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez has called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute all remaining death row sentences in the state, ...

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville's ...

A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...

Japan executed a 34-year-old death row inmate known as the "Twitter Killer," who was convicted of killing nine people at his ...

The convicted killer, 79-year-old Richard Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, June 25, at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison farm, according to the ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who fervently sought Richard Farley’s sentence reduction, just walked away.

Marion ‘Suge’ Knight claims a group of Tupac Shakur’s closest friends and family smoked his cremated ashes in a blunt. This ...

The Glenn County District Attorney's Office says that in 1974, Card murdered three members of the Griffiths family during a ...

Police arrested him later that year after finding the bodies of eight teenage girls and women as well as one man in ...

The case, which shocked the nation, highlights Japan’s continued use of capital punishment despite international criticism.

California Black Media   Black Student Enrollment in California’s Public Schools Reaches Lowest Level Since 1990s The ...