World California takes step toward using one drug in executions Updated Apr 11, 2025 SACRAMENTO — California took the next step Tuesday in its plan to use a single drug to execute condemned prisoners, nine years after the natio…
Local News Former prosecutor backs ending state death penalty Updated Apr 11, 2025 SACRAMENTO — A former Los Angeles County district attorney joined an effort to end California’s death penalty Monday, backing an initiative pr…
Local News Schwarzenegger moves to fix execution method Updated Apr 1, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his staff to begin revising the California's lethal injection procedure to allay…
World Supreme Court debates the way that states execute killers Updated Apr 1, 2025 WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices clashed on Wednesday over how states execute killers, with one court member saying current lethal-injectio…
Local News NDNU prof to nominate Tookie for Nobel Prize Daily Journal staff reportUpdated Jul 28, 2025 A Belmont professor will announce today his fifth nomination of death-row inmate Stanley "Tookie” Williams for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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