George Huggins Jr., 24, and his girlfriend of five years, Althea Housley, 33, accosted Jinghong Kang, 45, on the 1900 block of Webster Street the night of July 18, said Tom Rogers, Alameda County's chief deputy district attorney.

The state Supreme Court is set to decide a case concerning the constitutionality of the state's execution process.

A probable cause statement used as the basis of the charges says Driskill murdered Johnnie Wilson, 82, and Coleen Wilson, 76.

A jury on Wednesday convicted two men of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a police officer, and both could face the death penalty at sentencing.

An unruly inmate, one who set fires and who tested positive for marijuana while in prison, is the way corrections officers described John Allen Rubio during the second day of testimony in the punishment phase of his capital murder trial.

A Las Vegas jury sentenced Charles Conner to death Tuesday. The sentence came 25 years after he murdered and raped Beth Lynn Jardine, the daughter of David and Linda Jardine of Mountain Home.