#criminal justice

San Quentin State Prison, in Marin County, California, photographed in 2017.

Newsom commutes all 548 death sentences in California, the largest mass clemency in US history

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court weighs whether a 2013 change to a psychiatric manual can reopen a Texas death sentence