Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of all 563 inmates on California's death row.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering whether to spare 563 inmates from the death penalty as one of his final acts before leaving office in January. Conversations over the potential mass ...

In our conversations we bring together three people who have witnessed prisoners being put to death to share their ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Sacramento Gov. Gavin Newsom, a possible presidential candidate, is seriously considering ...

California has not executed anyone since January 2006, when Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, was governor.

Jamaal Howard is set to face the ultimate punishment in a matter of hours ...

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive lethal injection Wednesday in what an expert dubbed a “singular and unparalleled” event. Pike, 50, was strapped to a gurney in Riverbend ...

Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul.