An unusual investigation quietly taking place in California could lead to a resolution of the most hotly debated death row cases in the country. Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a rare executive ...

Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...

Condemned murderer and serial rapist Richard Raymond Ramirez was serving a death sentence for the 1983 slaying of 22-year-old ...

State officials have tried to add restrictions to the tablets, but prisoners say there are ways to easily bypass them.

California’s oldest prison once housed the largest death row in the nation. The correctional facility formerly known as San Quentin State Prison housed some of the Golden State’s most notorious ...