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The findings come as the governor seeks $126.6 million in the next fiscal year and $162.5 million annually thereafter to expand treatment

The goal is to turn that section at San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment,” Gov. Newsom said

Calif. governor blocked Rene Enriquez’s release from prison late Friday, citing the 52-year-old inmate’s violent criminal past, nearly two decades as a top gang leader and his “shallow understanding” of his own actions.

The inmate is challenging Ohio’s lethal injection method as well as the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty law

American Indian tribes for decades have been able to tell prosecutors if they want death penalty considered for certain crimes on their land. Nearly all have rejected it

Arkansas executed four prisoners in April but had intended to put eight men to death

The court ruled in the state’s favor, reversing a judge’s order that delayed three executions after he declared the state’s lethal injection process unconstitutional

Attorneys said testing using techniques that were not available at the time of the killing shows DNA found on the knife matches an unknown man

Ronald Phillips apologized to the girl’s family, telling them: “I’m sorry you had to live so long with my actions”

The execution was the state’s second of the year