Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to impose a moratorium on the death penalty in California. The order will prevent the state from putting prisoners to death by granting temporary reprieves ...
SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary Breck at ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court has announced the execution dates for four inmates, including the only woman on the state's death row. Christa Pike was found guilty in 1995 of the brutal torture and ...
This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...