Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

On Jan. 17, 2006, California carried out what would turn out to be the last execution in the Golden State in the next two ...

California has not executed anyone since 2006 and advocates are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to grant clemency to all those ...

Lush Cosmetics has launched a California-wide campaign to urge Governor Gavin Newsom to commute all of the state's more than ...

The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, ...

California's process for imposing the death penalty “is now, and always has been, infected by racism,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Monday in a brief filed with the state Supreme Court. Newsom filed the ...

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who were found dead in their Los Angeles home Prosecutors say ...

Unfortunately, this does not mean much in California. The state does have the death penalty, and voters rejected a statewide ballot proposition in 2012 that would have repealed it. People can still be ...

Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, a case that could carry the death penalty, which has not been used in California for nearly two decades ...