Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. These are the men and women currently on death row.
Analysis: Dozens of death row inmates in California are trying to get their sentences overturned with claims that they are mentally retardedROBERT SIEGEL
During this time, there were many legal challenges to the death penalty in the state. Early versions of the death penalty imposed amandatory sentenceof death for certain crimes. The California death penalty also did not allow death row defendants to introduce mitigating evidence in their cases. T...
Ironically, California's death row turned out to be a relatively safe place for Sully and the more than 600 other condemned inmates to be housed. California has only carried out 13 executions since Sully's arrival in 1986, and with the state gradually moving away from capital punishment, the...
The five were allegedly stealing mail and personal identification from victims throughout Santa Clara County, Pistor said. Death Row inmates part of California's 'massive' unemployment fraud; totals could top $1B Officers aid the suspects used the stolen personal identification to cr...
A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of the food, and individual padlocks on cell doors that he says are a safety hazard Associated PressFeb. 12, 2025 Lawyers for Inmates Ask Judge t...
theCaliforniaSupreme Court declared the death penalty a form of cruel and unusual punishment in accordance with he 8th Amendment. This caused for the resentence of 107 death row inmates. However, on August 11, 1977, legislature reinstated the death penalty only for crimes such asmurderfor financi...
Many of these condemned inmates will thus languish on death row for decades, only to die of natural causes while still waiting for their cases to be resolved. Despite numerous warnings of the deterioration of California's capital punishment system and its now imminent collapse, the Legislature ...
Schwarzenegger adopting stiff clemency criteria for California death-row inmatesDAVID KRAVETS, AP Legal Affairs Writer
A Tennessee death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, the quality of the food, and individual padlocks on cell doors that he says are a safety hazard Associated PressFeb. 12, 2025 Lawyers for Inmates Ask Judge to ...