California hasn’t put any inmates to death since 2006 and there’s even been a moratorium in place on executions for more than ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on the death penalty in 2019, and the last prisoner executed in the state ...

New state bills aim to expand options for death row inmates’ executions to include firing squads and nitrogen gas and allow ...

Areli Escobar has sought a new trial since a damning audit of APD's crime lab. The same office that prosecuted him has ...

Boxer on death row for 46 years after he was framed for quadruple murder by police awarded record payout - Iwao Hakamada is ...

Follow major cases facing the Supreme Court in 2025. The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on cases related to ghost guns, the death penalty, medical care for transgender minors, public funding for ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina, it was the first time in 15 years that an ...

A second woman was killed at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione last year during a conjugal visit with her husband, officials ...

Last year's Senate Bill 1047, written by state Senator Scott Wiener, would have imposed safeguards and policies for the ...

Iwao Hakamata, Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate, wins historic compensation for enduring 'extremely severe' mental ...

Arkansas becomes the latest state to allow nitrogen gas for executions, following in the footsteps of Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.

Japan's prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, cleared after 46 years on death row, receives a record $1.4 million in compensation.