The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum has been indicted on federal hate crimes char ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A row of uniforms for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation hang at Halby’s in Blythe on May 8, ...