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2 Sep 2009, 8:17 am
"Californians' support for death penalty waning," is the title of Carol Williams' report in today's Los Angeles Times.A majority of Californians still favor the death penalty, but their support has waned from 79% to 66% over the last two decades as fears of executing the wrongly convicted escalate, a researcher reported Tuesday.The survey conducted by Craig Haney, a UC Santa Cruz psychology professor and lawyer, also showed that most Californians erroneously… [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 10:49 pm
Meanwhile, just days before his arrest last week, Phillip Garrido delivered a two-part manifesto to the San Francisco FBI office. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 6:52 am
And, although this is likely not the end of the story, the judiciary has released an initial response to RECAP, emanating out of the District of New Mexico Bankruptcy Court (yes, certainly, this is only one district), stating that users, save for exempt users, cannot be prohibited from using RECAP, which does not, as the RECAP site assumes, mean that the use of RECAP is consistent with the law, but which really means that there is nothing the courts can do about it, or are willing to do… [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 8:37 am
In 2006, Fogel halted executions until officials expanded the death chamber at San Quentin prison and provided more executioner training and other upgrades to ensure the condemned do not suffer cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 9:10 am
A federal judge in 2006 halted executions in California until officials expanded the death chamber at San Quentin prison and provided more executioner training and other upgrades to ensure the condemned do not suffer cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 7:56 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to consider selling San Quentin to earn money for the state. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 2:26 pm
The crown jewel of the proposed fire sale is San Quentin State Prison, home to California's death row and beautifully situated in the San Francisco Bay. [read post]
28 May 2009, 1:31 pm
Prison Guard to Warden of San Quentin to Head of State Corrections Department Well, Mrs. [read post]
26 May 2009, 1:51 pm
LINKDuring her stint as warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford oversaw the execution of four death row inmates without ever discussing her personal feelings about the death penalty. [read post]
23 May 2009, 12:25 am
"We're not making intelligent choices about who should be in state prison and who shouldn't," Woodford said.During her stint as warden at San Quentin from 1999 to 2004, Woodford initiated a number of experimental programs aimed at reducing recidivism. [read post]
4 May 2009, 12:43 pm
San Quentin's death row, the nation's largest, houses 680 prisoners. [read post]
4 May 2009, 9:45 am
San Quentin's death row, the nation's largest, houses 680 prisoners. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 6:20 am
"Judge signs off on San Quentin improvements": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A federal judge has ended nearly three decades of supervision over conditions on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison after authorities made court-ordered improvements ranging from giving inmates more legal help and exercise time to getting rid of rodents and bird droppings. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 11:28 am
They are the first two federal death penalty trials in California's Northern District, based in San Francisco, since two Alcatraz inmates were convicted, sentenced to death and executed in the San Quentin gas chamber in 1948 for an escape attempt two years earlier in which two guards and three prisoners were killed. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 9:36 am
The California state prison at San Quentin, where all of the state’s death-row inmates are housed, currently houses 680 death-row inmates. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 9:44 am
District Judge Jeremy Fogel cited evidence of possible problems at six lethal injections at San Quentin and said prison officials had to find someone with medical training to make sure the inmate was unconscious. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 9:30 am
Here is how the piece starts: It's been three years since the night a federal judge blocked an execution at San Quentin State Prison because of concerns that the state's haphazard lethal injection methods could inflict prolonged and excruciating pain on a condemned inmate, violating the U.S. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 8:21 am
"State decides to seek public input on execution plan," is Howard Mintz' report in today San Jose Mercury News.California officials have abandoned a legal fight over their bid to secretly overhaul the state's execution method, a move that sends the issue back to square one and leaves San Quentin's newly constructed execution chamber idled for the foreseeable future.Gov. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 8:43 am
Then, Democrat and Republican lawmakers teamed up to kill a planned expansion to the San Quentin Death Row. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 5:33 pm
One of Denham's bills, SB 28, would require the decommissioning and sale of San Quentin State Prison by Dec. 1, 2011. [read post]
