Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men ...

SAN QUENTIN (CBS SF) -- Prison officials on Tuesday confirmed that a condemned death row inmate at San Quentin died at the prison after being found unresponsive in his cell Monday afternoon. According ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin State Prison is in the process of clearing out death row after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered it to be shut down. San Quentin holds about 3,000 convicted criminals behind ...

More than 700 condemned inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row soon will have a chance to transfer to one of eight state prisons, a move a former district attorney termed “a slap to ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio man condemned to die for the slaying of his former girlfriend has killed himself on death row, the state prisons agency said Monday. Inmate Patrick Leonard died Sunday ...

David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men transferred to other prisons. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) By age ...

Hundreds of death row inmates from San Quentin have been scattered among two dozen institutions across the state, while the 18 condemned women who had been housed in the isolated death row at the ...