Nick Reiner, 32, appeared in court on Wednesday wearing suicide prevention vest after being charged with murdering parents Rob and Michele Reiner in Brentwood.

California’s death penalty has cost $300M in 5 years without executions. Gov. Gavin Newsom can help dismantle this broken system with life sentences. Hector Amezcua [email protected] California should get rid of death row altogether and, instead ...

Last July a California judge ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Ernest D Jones. The reasoning behind the judge’s ruling? It’s taking California too long to kill inmates on Death Row. So long that the sentence amounts to cruel and ...

Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that the state's death penalty is unconstitutional Wednesday. The state put a hold on executions in 2005, leaving 748 people on death row, including inmate ...