Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall showed ...

In 1977, Rodney Alcala was out of prison and living in New York ... And again, the sentence was death. Alcala had been on San Quentin's death row since 1980. Now, with a second conviction and a second ...

OPINION- Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall ...

This occurred not just at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center — formerly known as San Quentin State Prison — but also at the ...

A former officer at San Quentin prison has been indicted over allegations he planted contraband in a scheme to "discover" it himself, increase his overtime pay and get promoted to sergeant, according ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...

San Jose State's women's volleyball team will have a match scratched from its schedule for the seventh time this season amid an ongoing national controversy over a transgender athlete on the team.