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6 Oct 2023, 2:19 pm
After an outbreak of COVID-19 at a California prison, officials transfer 122 high-risk inmates to San Quentin State Prison, which had no known cases. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 1:00 pm
Davis, Acting Warden of San Quentin State Prison, Nos. 09-99012, 09-99013 (Ikuta with NR Smith and Murguia) --- Finding that a reasoned opinion of the California Supreme Court regarding a California death-row prisoner's claim of penalty-phase ineffective assistance was entitled to deference under AEDPA, the panel reversed the district court's grant of relief from a death sentence. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 11:30 am
Ron Davis is now the warden of San Quentin and thus is automatically substituted as the respondent for the departed Kevin Chappell. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
Capital punishment in the United States is often considered in terms of its constitutional vulnerability. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm
Three weeks after Gonzales came down, Judge Lawrence O’Neill—who in 2007 had granted a stay in the federal habeas proceedings of death row inmate Ronald McPeters based on mental decomposition that rendered him unable to assist his counsel in post-conviction proceedings—ordered the Acting Warden of San Quentin State Prison to meet and confer with the Fresno County District Attorney to try to settle the case. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 8:37 am
A former warden at San Quentin State Prison is playing a leading role in the campaign for Proposition 34,... [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 9:05 am
During her tenure as warden of San Quentin prison, Jeanne Woodford presided over the executions of four prisoners. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 1:40 pm
That’s the time she had, from the day a death warrant was signed by the governor to the actual night of an execution, to prepare her staff to kill an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, home to California’s death row. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 10:20 am
So does Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin prison. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:24 am
Former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford said in a prepared statement that the ballot measure is "about one thing and one thing only: ensuring that those who commit the most serious crimes in our state are caught and held accountable. [read post]
3 May 2012, 8:59 am
California revised its protocol, but an appeals court has blocked a resumption of executions over the same objections.Motions filed by Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday asked that the warden of San Quentin State Prison put convicted murderers Mitchell Carleton Sims and Tiequon Aundray Cox to death by the single-drug protocol or show cause why the executions cannot proceed.Sims, 52, and Cox,… [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:27 pm
Jeanne Woodford, former warden at San Quentin state prison and supporter of the SAFE California Act, said in a press statement, “Back in 1978 [when the state expanded its use of capital punishment], we did not have an alternative sentence that would keep convicted killers behind bars forever. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:17 am
Heller, an ex-prosecutor who wrote the 1978 initiative; Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison who oversaw four executions; and former L.A. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:59 am
As Jeanne Woodford the former Warden at San Quentin State Prison, and current Executive Director at Death Penalty Focus, put it, this is a "game-changer of massive proportions. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 9:54 am
The movement is getting some unexpected allies, including the a man who successfully campaigned for the death penalty approval in 1978, the former prosecutor who wrote that law, the former warden of San Quentin State Prison and a former district attorney for L.A. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 8:26 am
Former San Quentin warden Jeanne Woodford points out that: “Connecticut’s estimated $5 million in annual death penalty costs pale in comparison to California’s $184 million per year. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:11 am
San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford supports scrapping the death penalty. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 9:11 am
"California voters are ready to replace the death penalty with life in prison with no chance of parole," declared Jeanne Woodford, who oversaw four executions as warden of San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 8:59 am
Jeanne Woodford, the former warden of San Quentin State Prison, who presided over four executions, and is now executive director of Death Penalty Focus, says that after each execution someone on the staff would ask, "Is the world safer because of what we did tonight? [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 8:16 am
Jeanne Woodford served as warden of San Quentin State Prison in California from 1999 through 2004. [read post]
