The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers.
The Missouri Supreme Court has halted the immediate release of a man whose murder conviction was overturned — just as the man was about to walk free.
As a result, the item is being removed from the agenda.
THE ROW Reno is celebrating both the living and the dead this upcoming Halloween weekend.
The plan comes nearly three years after Newsom, a Democrat, imposed a moratorium on executions so long as he is governor.
The U.S. government has set an execution date for the only Native American on federal death row.
His latest effort will soon free about 3,100 inmates by granting most a one-time three-month credit.
A new report finds a continuing decline in capital punishment in the United States.
Officials say a San Francisco Bay Area serial killer has died of unknown causes on California's death row.
The American Bar Association has joined an appeal challenging the death sentence of a man it says was mentally ill when he was convicted of the 1998 hatchet slaying of a UNR campus police officer.