Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

My first day in prison, and I get jumped. How did I get here? It was my first day at San Quentin but it wasn ... I would choose life over death. I did what I’d done as a Marine recruit.

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State ...