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Wilbert Linsenbardt's headstone at St. Paul's Cemetery in Lohman reads "buried in New Guinea." More than 80 years after his death, that epitaph will need to be changed. Linsenbardt's remains were ...

Decades of research has documented racial bias in the application of the death penalty. In a brief submitted to the California Supreme Court challenging the administration of the state’s death penalty ...

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Alameda County’s new district attorney is rejecting her predecessor’s recommendations to resentence people on death row — recommendations triggered by a historic review of systemic ...

New District Attorney in California County Withdraws From Historic Death Penalty Resentencing Alameda County’s new district attorney is rejecting her predecessor’s recommendations to resentenc ...