Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

In 1977, Rodney Alcala was out of prison and living in New York ... And again, the sentence was death. Alcala had been on San Quentin's death row since 1980. Now, with a second conviction and a second ...

OPINION- Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall ...

SAN QUENTIN — Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, but ...

A former officer at San Quentin prison has been indicted over allegations he planted contraband in a scheme to "discover" it himself, increase his overtime pay and get promoted to sergeant, according ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies and a pair of civilian Santa Rita Jail employees are facing charges related to the ...

Robert Roberson was set to be the first person in the U.S. to be executed on a “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis after getting ...