A trans serial killer had a sex change paid for by California taxpayers after Vice President Kamala Harris boasted of "behind ...

The California prison used to house some of the state’s most violent criminals, but has become more known lately for creative ...

A man who, along with his young girlfriend, sexually assaulted and killed a high school sophomore more than 20 years ago, has ...

The state's Republican attorney general agrees that Richard Glossip's conviction should be thrown out based on problematic ...

A mother sentenced to death for killing her four children in their San Marcos home 25 years ago has been resentenced to life ...

A24's 'Sing Sing' and Netflix's 'Daughters' screened alongside films from incarcerated directors at the event, where the red ...

Prisoner Thomas Creech, 74, has argued that a repeat execution attempt would violate his constitutional rights against cruel ...

Suge Knight seeks delay of his November retrial over his Tam's Burgers fatal hit-and-run as he challenges his 28-year prison sentence ...

Texas inmate Robert Roberson, facing execution tonight, would be the sixth person put to death by the state of Texas this ...

Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he ...

There were two planned executions in the US on Thursday - one was halted over questions of the suspect's guilt and the other ...

Although the primary use of DNA evidence in capital cases has been to exonerate wrongly convicted individuals, a capital case ...