Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, ...

Ayala, who was transferred last year from San Quentin to Centinela state prison as Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down death row, has yet to enter a plea. It wasn't clear Friday whether he was represented ...

He sought justice from injustice. He sought life for those on Death Row. He urged others to, “do unto others as you would ...

Over the past five years his administration has moved inhabitants of California’s Death Row ... Prison, Sacramento, near Folsom, and Pelican Bay State Prison. The death chamber at San Quentin ...

In a 1997 interview with Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air, Cash revealed what surprised him the most about performing at places like San Quentin State Prison ... was scared to death, and the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the ...

It has been featured in a number of documentaries like “Life on Death Row ... Alcatraz in San Francisco, Eastern State Penitentiary in Michigan City and the Old Joliet Prison not far ...

Parsons, a 20-year veteran of the San ... under state law. Diana May said the long wait does not bother her, since Alvarez faces a tough life as a death-row inmate away from the regular prison ...

Over Six Saturdays from Feb. 1 to March 8, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Emmanuel Parish Hall, learn about Buddhism through an ...