Lush Cosmetics has launched a California-wide campaign to urge Governor Gavin Newsom to commute all of the state's more than ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Sister Helen Prejean and 130 religious leaders in California on Tuesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to commute the sentences for all of the state's death row prisoners. The call comes ...

Last July a California judge ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Ernest D Jones. The reasoning behind the judge’s ruling? It’s taking California too long to kill inmates on Death ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

It's been nine years since the death penalty was carried out in California; death row is packed with 750 inmates. A ruling this week by the US Supreme Court may pave the way to restoring the practice, ...

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead in their Los Angeles home Prosecutors say ...