Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced Wednesday that he will no longer seek the death penalty, the first…
A judge said on Monday that there are indications that a transient man is malingering to avoid standing trial on…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order that effectively ends the death penalty in the state.
State corrections officials don't believe the deaths of two inmates who likely committed suicide at San Quentin State Prison this…
A dozen alleged members of an MS-13 gang in Santa Cruz have been accused in a revised indictment by a…
Three media organizations sued California corrections officials in federal court in San Francisco Thursday, seeking the right for witnesses, including…
A Santa Clara County Superior Court jury Monday imposed a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole…
Antolin Garcia-Torres was found guilty in San Jose Tuesday morning for the first-degree murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar in 2012.
Jury deliberations began Thursday morning in the trial of a Morgan Hill man accused of the murder of Sierra LaMar.
A defense attorney for the man charged with the 2012 murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar gave his closing argument in…
Charges were filed Friday against an inmate long suspected in the murder of a 13-year-old girl who went missing in…
Two defendants pleaded guilty in Marin County Superior Court Monday to killing a Canadian tourist in Golden Gate Park and…
A federal appeals court in San Francisco Monday rejected a Norteño gang member's challenge to his second-degree murder conviction for…
A jury today recommended the death penalty for an Oakland man who was convicted of murdering an 8-year-old girl and…
A woman and a teenage boy charged with the deaths of two children and abuse of a third child in…
California's death penalty was left in place by a federal appeals court in San Francisco Thursday.
Chinatown association leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow has been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco on new…
San Quentin State Prison death row inmate Michael Lee Elliot died Monday at a hospital, a prison spokesman said today.
California's death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because the system is "dysfunctional."
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