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.
A suspected gang member was charged today with killing a University of Southern California student during an attempted robbery in March, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
The battle over California's voter-backed effort to resume executions will begin in earnest when state officials and death penalty supporters head to court to seek an end to
A voter-approved measure to speed up executions in California was upheld Thursday by the state Supreme Court, but justices rejected arguments that a provision setting a five-year limit on appeals
By Marina Andalon
This has been a year of extreme opinions in politics but locals who want a more nuanced and informative approach to contentious issues can take advantage of
ProCon.org has announced that it surpassed 20,000,000 annual readers in 2014, a 22.1% increase over 2013. The free educational website has seen steady growth since launching