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A Marin County Superior Court jury has sentenced convicted serial killer Joseph Naso to death.
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A Marin County jury has recommended that convicted serial killer Joseph Naso be sentenced to death.
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Late Thursday, a state appeals court ruled against reinstating the death penalty.
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A third defendant accused of the alleged drug-related slaying of three men near Forestville has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
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Dozens of California inmates were released from death row in the years after a 1972 Supreme Court decision.
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Dozens of California inmates were released from death row in the years after a 1972 Supreme Court decision overturning the death penalty.
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Stanworth, 70, entered a not guilty plea to the murder of 90-year-old Nellie Stanworth at his Vallejo home.
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Stanworth, 70, entered a not guilty plea to the murder of 90-year-old Nellie Stanworth at his Vallejo home.
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It was a very short hearing, but certainly not lacking in drama for those inside the courtroom.
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It was a very short hearing, but certainly not lacking in drama for those inside the courtroom.
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A convicted killer freed from death row decades ago is now accused of murdering his own mother.
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A convicted killer freed from death row is now accused of murdering his own mother.
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President Barack Obama has won a hard fought re-election race. Mitt Romney concedes to the president.
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There are 726 prisoners on death row in California and their sentences will be downgraded to "life in prison" if Proposition 34 passes.
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There are 726 prisoners on death row in California and their sentences will be downgraded to "life in prison" if Proposition 34 passes.
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One of the most important measures on the November ballot would abolish California's death penalty.
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Scott Peterson's lawyers claim that publicity influenced the outcome of his trial.
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California prison officials are trying to keep possession of a scarce lethal injection drug, contesting a federal court order making it illegal to use "foreign manufactured" sodium thiopental.
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District Attorney George Gascon talked exclusively with ABC7 News during an editorial meeting Monday.
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San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon talked exclusively with ABC7 News during an editorial meeting Monday.
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A Central Valley man has made it his mission to get executions resumed in California.
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A Central Valley man has made it his mission to get executions resumed in California.
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Opponents of the death penalty in California say they're sure they've done what's needed to put the issue before voters.
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The number of death penalty sentences is drastically down in California.
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A Marin County judge struck down California's three-drug lethal injection procedure, ruling it was in violation of state law.
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A man who was freed by a judge after spending 21 years in jail is spearheading a campaign to abolish the death penalty in California.
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A long-running challenge to California's death penalty procedures has been assigned to a new federal judge in San Francisco.
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There's a new push in California to abolish the death penalty, but the arguments are due to financial reasons.
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There's a new push in California to abolish the death penalty, but the arguments are due to financial reasons.
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Loni Hancock is introducing legislation today that would abolish the death penalty.
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Prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty against a psychiatric patient charged with murder in the death of a nurse.
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San Francisco prosecutors have decided against seeking the death penalty in a triple murder case involving reputed members of a Bayview street gang called the BNT.
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Questions are surfacing over the sudden appearance of a drug needed to carry out executions.
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Questions are now surfacing over the sudden appearance at San Quentin of a drug needed to carry out executions.
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California has called off its scheduled Thursday execution following setbacks in both federal and state courts.
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ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson on the governor's decision to consider clemency for a Death Row inmate.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed by two days an execution that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed by two days an execution that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
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Lawyers for condemned killer Albert Brown are pursuing appeals in two different court systems.
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Lawyers for condemned killer Albert Brown are pursuing appeals in two different court systems.
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A death row inmate wants a federal judge to stop his execution scheduled for Wednesday.
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A death row inmate wants a federal judge to stop his execution scheduled for Wednesday.
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A federal judge refused Saturday to reconsider his denial of a stay of execution for a murderer scheduled to be given the death penalty.
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A federal judge cleared the way Friday for California's first execution in nearly five years.
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San Quentin's death penalty issue has now been thrust into the governor's race between Whitman and Brown.
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San Quentin's death penalty issue has now been thrust into the governor's race between Whitman and Brown.
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