L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a ...

A youth soccer coach has been charged in the death of a 13-year-old whose body was found on the side of a Southern California ...

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.'s most notorious gang figures Thursday, saying a juror who likely would have ...

Death penalty is on the table for the California soccer coach accused of killing 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez, if convicted, according to LA County DA Nathan Hochman.

In a rare ruling with broad implications for jury deliberations and the death penalty in California, the California Supreme ...

The high court said a juror in the multiple-homicide case should not have been removed, even though fellow panelists said he ...

The high court found that a lower court improperly removed a juror who faced accusations that he held an anti-police bias.

The death penalty is riddled with hypocrisy. It attempts to punish murder through another act of murder. And the state’s ...

Infamous Atwater Village gang boss Timothy McGhee's first-degree murder convictions were tossed out by the California Supreme ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that she has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...