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6 Aug 2010, 9:01 am by Steve Hall
The 42-page lawsuit was filed in Marin County, where death row inmates are housed in San Quentin State Prison.The suit was filed by San Francisco-based law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, which is not involved in the Morales case. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:30 pm by carie
The lawsuits are far from being resolved, and most observers believe it could be years before another execution takes place at San Quentin Prison.Even before the suspension, only 13 condemned inmates have been executed from the time capital punishment resumed in the state in 1977 until February 2006, when U.S. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
   He cheated the hangman, or in California's case whoever pushes the needle, by dying of a pulmonary embolism while awaiting execution at San Quentin prison on Dec. 27, 2005.At the time of the shootings, Quadros was 52, Hillery was 56, Shaline was 57, and Willis was 51.Today more than 7,800 people work at FSIS to keep the nation's meat and poultry safe. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 9:49 am by Steve Hall
" "Execution procedure rejected," is the title of Scott Smith's Stockton Record report.In 2006, Morales came within steps of the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 8:26 am by Steve Hall
The last execution at San Quentin State Prison was that of Clarence Ray Allen on Jan. 17, 2006, the 13th in California since 1978.Since that day, at least 205 convicts have been executed in other states, 24 death row inmates at San Quentin have died from natural causes or suicide, and 83 people have been sentenced to death in California courts.But no one has been executed in California since Allen, including Modesto's Scott… [read post]
30 May 2010, 8:36 pm
Is it the requirement to treat a sex offender who cuts their bracelet off the same as someone who escaped from San Quentin? [read post]
5 May 2010, 2:28 pm by Steve Hall
Two hours before Morales was to die by lethal injection, a federal judge effectively halted his execution and all those to follow until the state built a new death chamber at San Quentin Prison which includes separate viewing areas for family members and press and devised new death penalty procedures. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 1:12 pm by Hilde
The lawsuits are far from being resolved, and most observers believe it could be years before another execution takes place at San Quentin Prison. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 9:37 am by Steve Hall
In the San Diego Union Tribune, John Wilkens writes, "State's death penalty: a hollow promise? [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 8:44 am by Steve Hall
Quoting Janet Woodford, former warden of San Quentin: "The death penalty should be replaced with life without parole. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:57 am by Steve Hall
That exceeds the capacity of San Quentin State Prison's death row, which is in need of a $395.5-million upgrade. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 6:05 am by Dan Filler
The Governator is proposing to assign the provision of California state prison medical services to the University of California. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 1:13 am
Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at California's San Quentin Prison from 1913 to .... medical procedure is performed at the instigation of law enforcement for the purpose .... [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 9:39 am by Steve Hall
Death row inmates at San Quentin know the odds that they will die of natural causes are more than double the chance that they'll be executed.California taxpayers pay an extra $90,000 for every inmate on death row, a total of $60 million per year more than they spend on inmates serving life without parole. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 7:40 am by Steve Hall
The last execution was in January 2006, when convicted killer Clarence Allen was put to death by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison.When murderer Michael A. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 4:31 am by Hilde
"Among the new arrivals at San Quentin's death row this year were Reyon Ingram and Calvin Dennis, convicted of killing a father and son as part of a robbery in Compton in 2006. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:36 am by Hilde
The governor's task force revised the procedures to ensure that the prisoner would be fully anesthetized before death, but before the changes could be evaluated by Fogel, attorneys for two death row inmates challenged their legality in state court.A judge in Marin County, where San Quentin's execution chamber is located, deemed the revised procedures illegal for their lack of public input. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:46 am by Steve Hall
The governor's task force revised the procedures to ensure that the prisoner would be fully anesthetized before death, but before the changes could be evaluated by Fogel, attorneys for two death row inmates challenged their legality in state court.A judge in Marin County, where San Quentin's execution chamber is located, deemed the revised procedures illegal for their lack of public input. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 8:22 am
In California fear had an early lead as San Quentin prison opened in 1851, just two years after statehood, and well ahead of the University of California which was chartered in 1868. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 2:23 pm
Though death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison are far from coddled, they live in single cells that are slightly larger than the two-bunk, maximum-security confines elsewhere, they have better access to telephones and they have "contact visits" in plexiglass booths by themselves rather than in communal halls as in other institutions. [read post]