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In a state facing a multi-billion dollar budget deficit -- one lawmaker says the cost of capital punishment is too high for Californians.

The 1984 killing of a woman near a busy Washington, D.C., street corner horrified the city and led to multiple convictions. Now the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and a determined lawyer are raising questions about whether at least one man was wrongly accused.

A jury deliberated for nine days before finding the former governor guilty of 17 of 20 counts, including trying to sell President Obama's vacated Senate seat. Jurors in his first trial had deadlocked on all but one charge.

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Correction officials in California see San Quentin State Prison, once a notoriously violent place, as a model for reform at a time when the state's prison system is in crisis.

The Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison organizes volunteer instructors from schools like UC-Berkeley and Stanford, who conduct classes inside the prison walls. Inmates can earn degrees, and in the process, help bring calm to the once-notoriously violent prison.

The online ad targeting California Democrat Janice Hahn features a blond stripper and two armed black men who perform an obscenity-filled rap. Some political observers say it's a 21st century version of the Willie Horton ad that ran so effectively against Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential campaign.

The House Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing Wednesday examining terrorist recruitment inside the walls of American jails and prisons. Experts say the number of criminals who turn to extremism behind bars is small but worrisome. Civil rights groups argue there's not enough evidence to hold a congressional hearing.

A man who manufactured bombs and stored large amounts of explosives in his rented home in North County, which had to be destroyed, was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison.

Today is California's deadline to submit its plan to reduce the state's prison population to the Supreme court. We'll hear details of the plan.