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

Lemaricus Davidson, one of five people convicted in the 2007 murders of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian, appeared in court Wednesday.

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

California death row inmate Julian Mendez killed in Kern Valley State Prison allegedly involving more than 30 inmates, with Mario Renteria as the alleged initial attacker.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating after a death row inmate was killed at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Friday. Convicted murderer ...

Death row inmate Julian Mendez, 46, was attacked and killed by another inmate on Friday June 6 at Kern Valley State Prison, officials said. (Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and ...