There’s an utterly new feeling at San Quentin’s Death Row these days, and it’s not just for the people running the place. You ...
California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group ...
One day, in May of 1985, Kevin Cooper first set foot on death row at San Quentin State Prison, in the San Francisco Bay.
Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with ...
Officials with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Monday the agency has already begun the process of phasing out death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County.
Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...
Cooper, who called in from San Quentin State Prison, has been on death row for 34 years for brutal murders he has always insisted he did not commit, after a trial he says was infected by corruption ...
A death row inmate who sexually assaulted an 18-year-old UC Davis student before killing the teen and her college sweetheart in 1980 died Monday at a medical facility used to treat prisoners, ...
We come full circle on a story we first covered in 2016 when we visited the exercise yard at San Quentin State prison in California. It houses the highest number of death row inmates in America ...