Death row inmate Armando Macias, 50, was found unresponsive in his cell at California State Prison, Sacramento, and pronounced dead shortly after. He had been on death row since 2011 for a 2002 murder ...

Tanner Horner, sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Athena Strand, has been transferred to a single cell at ...

Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry, a chief ...

This is the worst treatment I have seen by far” of anyone on death row, said the Rev. Jeff Hood of Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s ...

When the state decides to take a life, the rationale behind it should be crystal clear, as should the series of decisions that propel inmates from their death row cells to the execution chamber. Gov.

A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s death row on March 25, 2024. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general ...

Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system—including near total isolation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high ...