South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the ...

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk ...

Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...

Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...

About the same time William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were defending the Alamo in San Antonio in 1836, a prison ...

Pearl Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in June 2018 for her involvement in the ...

But the killer took his secrets with him to San Quentin. When he arrived on death row, a fellow inmate offered him protection on the yard. Over the course of a decade, the killer confided in this ...

But the opportunity arose when Albert Ru-Al Jones, a onetime gang member turned former San Quentin death-row inmate, reached out to Kinmont five years ago. At the time, Jones had been in prison ...

In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, the crowded warren of concrete and iron cells, stacked five ...

With 42 programs and 170 groups, San Quentin has more programs than any institution in the state of California.