Newsom moves to commute all California death sentences
The move does not repeal California's death penalty or prevent prosecutors from seeking it in future cases.
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The move does not repeal California's death penalty or prevent prosecutors from seeking it in future cases.
Lauren Toms reports.
Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."
The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.
Prosecutors in San Joaquin County said they will seek the death penalty against Wesley Brownlee, who has been charged with multiple killings in the Stockton area and the Bay Area.
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
President Biden left in place the capital punishment sentences of just three federal inmates: Robert Bowers, Dzhokar Tsarnaev and Dylann Roof.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said her office is weighing their options after a federal judge overturned the murder conviction of a man who was on death row for 33 years, due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said her office is weighing their options after a federal judge overturned the murder conviction of a man who was on death row for 33 years, due to prosecutorial misconduct.
A California judge has denied a petition to recall the death sentence of a man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and killing of 12-year-old Polly Klaas in a case that shocked the nation.
A judge has ordered a review of all death penalty cases from Alameda County following the discovery of prosecutors' notes that appear to show the illegal exclusion of Jewish and Black female jurors from the jury pool.
A Vietnam court sentenced developer Truong My Lan to death for swindling billions from a bank, saying she "eroded people's trust" in the ruling Communist Party.
More than three decades after 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma was kidnapped and murdered, the man convicted of killing her is seeking to overturn his death sentence.
More than three decades after 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped in Petaluma and murdered, her killer is seeking to have his death sentence overturned. Len Ramirez reports. Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced on Friday that he has ordered the county's 15 inmates on California's death row to be resentenced to life without parole.
Alabama went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas.
Politicians pushed for the nitrogen gas execution method with limited scientific research behind it. Critics say it could amount to torture.
An inmate sentenced to California's death row in 1982 for murder has died of natural causes, prison officials said Tuesday.
A prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on California's death row died early Wednesday of natural causes, state corrections officials said.
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction and death penalty for one of two men implicated in at least 11 notorious horrific torture-slayings in the mid-1980s, in which the duo kept their victims hidden in a secret bunker in the Northern California woods.
