When the justices return to the bench to hear oral arguments in the fall, they will tackle several hot-button issues, ...

Longtime death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was vacated this spring, will soon find out if ...

For the last decade or so, those opposed to capital punishment have been repeating the same mantra as a way to mark the progress of their campaign to end state killing in this country: The number of ...

Douglas "Chief" Stankewitz, California's longest-serving individual on death row, is seeking relief under the California ...