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As of October 2024, official California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) records show 620 inmates sentenced to death in California, the lowest it has been since 2011, primarily due to suicide, death from other causes, fewer juries willing to sentence people to death, and resentencing by newly elected progressive district ...
Pursuant to Penal Code 3600, every male sentenced to death is to be delivered to the warden of the California state prison designated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the execution of the death penalty.
California’s death row is the largest in the country with more than 665 condemned prisoners (as of January 1, 2023 DRUSA). During the 2016 campaign on Propositions 62 and 66, the Yes on 62 (death penalty abolition) campaign made the dramatic assertion that “California is home to the largest death row population in the Western Hemisphere.”
In February 1972, the California Supreme Court found that the death penalty constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the California state constitution and 107 condemned inmates were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole and removed from California’s death row.
The state hopes to permanently empty California's death row by this fall, a CDCR official says. Friend vows to fight the effort. A public hearing on the issue is scheduled in Sacramento for...
For now, there are still over 700 people stuck on death row in California. As of 2019, there is a moratorium on the imposition of capital punishment in California. In Los Angeles County, prosecutors will no longer be seeking the death penalty.
The state government has been transferring the death row population in the infamous San Quentin prison to dozens of penitentiaries across California. EL PAÍS visited Kevin Cooper, who has been...