serving as the initial reception area for state prisoners. "If a judge sentences someone to prison, San Quentin is often the first place they will come. Then they are evaluated and sent somewhere ...

A California judge denies a petition for release or retrial but the legal team vows to continue to fight the conviction ...

A magazine editor's decades-long devotion to one of America's most notorious serial killers ended in silence after his death.

Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who was sentenced to death following his heinous crimes in California, died while on death row in 2013. He was 53.

It wasn’t until after the National Weather Service issued an “all clear” that an email was sent out to the incarcerated population at San Quentin ... Pelican Bay State Prison, which opened ...

He was then placed on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Due to California's moratorium on the death penalty, no executions have been carried out in the state since 2006. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Now, after 11 years on San Quentin’s death row ... Investigators now had a clear link to their suspect, but securing an arrest and verdict was no simple feat. "All the 1980 original ...

The crux of their argument: Media attention surrounding her arrest and charges tainted ... maximum penalty allowed by law, 20 years in prison.” San Antonio finally hit freezing temperatures ...

In 2002, Davis investigators learned they had a hit in Washington state: a felon named Richard Hirschfield who was already in prison for ... was imprisoned on San Quentin’s death row.