Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Convicted cop-killer Alberto Alvarez showed little emotion in a packed Redwood City courtroom Monday morning as a judge handed him a death sentence ... to San Quentin Prison within 10 days and ...

He was recently transferred from death row at San Quentin to a state prison in San Luis Obispo. Originally released in March 2009, this new edition of Body Parts has been updated with 32 pages ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

A man died of his injuries Saturday morning after being stabbed in San Jose's Santana Row Friday evening ... Police said the death was San Jose's third homicide of the year.

David Gutierrez was the teen who was stabbed to death at Santana Row last Friday. His family says David was on a date with ...

A South Carolina death row inmate is again asking for his execution to be postponed since his lawyers have not received the autopsy report from the last execution two weeks ago.

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

A Texas death row inmate was executed Thursday, the country's second lethal injection of the day, expressing remorse for the ...

He signed Ford’s death warrant in January. Also Thursday evening, a man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system ...

New United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has granted a request to transfer a convicted murderer in federal custody to the ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed ... the club and said he had found God during his two decades in prison. "I had no right to take your loved ones from you, and ...