Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.

More than 600 people are sentenced to die in California, more than any other state and so many that the crowded death row at San Quentin was dismantled and the inmates moved to other high security ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...