Robert Gauthier

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Robert Gauthier

LOS ANGELES -- California currently has 592 people in our prisons who have been sentenced to death. It's the largest population of prisoners awaiting execution of any state. An astounding 175 of those inmates were sentenced from Los Angeles County courts, giving L.A. the dubious distinction of holding more men (and three women) on death row than any state except Florida. In fact, there are currently more people from L.A. awaiting execution than in all of Texas.

2 weeks ago | sanluisobispo.com | Robert Gauthier

San Quentin, CA, Monday, March 25, 2024 - A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at other prisons throughout the state. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Robert Gauthier TNS California currently has 592 people in our prisons who have been sentenced to death. It's the largest population of prisoners awaiting execution of any state.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Robert Gauthier

It was time. Time, in late March, for me to see what early January had done. From the flats of Pasadena, I drove uphill, into Altadena, with my heart going steadily downhill at each ashen block. On the radio, KUSC was playing one of the most celebrated of operatic works, a poignant duet from "The Pearl Fishers," the music of friendship and loss. That was the soundtrack as I went looking for familiar places in a landscape now as unfamiliar as the back of the moon.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Robert Gauthier

Aiden may be just 3 years old, but he was old enough to know something was wrong recently at his family's home. When the toddler woke up in his grandparents' room on Wednesday, the smell of smoke hung in the air. His grandparents had already gone to work, and his parents were sleeping in another room. "He was alone and must have noticed that something wasn't right," Aiden's grandfather, Abel Sanchez, 57, said. The toddler walked to his parents' room and started to pull on his mother's blankets.

3 weeks ago | sanluisobispo.com | Robert Gauthier

Altadena, CA, Sunday, January 26, 2025 - Hendrena Martin’s house burned down in the Eaton fire. Her home, which her father built, was a place she imagined passing on to the next generation. Now, as she and her daughter, LaShondra Ellis, regroups they’re figuring out how or if they can one day rebuild. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) Robert Gauthier TNS It was time. Time, in late March, for me to see what early January had done.