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20 Nov 2007, 9:43 am
In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.In the San Francisco Chronicle, Matthew Yi has, "State Supreme Court's proposal would speed up Death Row appeals. [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]
24 Nov 2008, 5:56 pm
"Calif appeals court delays new injection plan," is an AP brief via the San Francisco Chronicle.Friday's ruling upholds a lower court decision that state prison officials failed to gather public comment and take other required steps in forming a new execution plan. [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]
13 Mar 2019, 1:37 pm
The execution chamber at San Quentin Prison will be closed. [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 Feb 2012, 3:36 am
Procunier, journalists challenged a San Quentin prison regulation that prohibited one-on-one interviews with selected inmates, claiming it infringed on their First Amendment right to gather news. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:06 pm
McAndrew, now a prison consultant, joined a small group of ex-wardens turned death penalty abolitionists, including Jeanne Woodford of San Quentin in California and Donald Cabana of Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi. [read post]
20 May 2016, 12:28 pm
Other provisions of the measure would allow death row inmates to be housed in prisons other than San Quentin and require them to work and pay victim restitution while they await execution. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 10:55 am
As governor in 1977, he vetoed a pro-death-penalty bill, and last April, he stopped a $356 million expansion of San Quentin’s death row, calling the cost “unconscionable” in a time of deep budget cuts to education and social services. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:46 am
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, meanwhile, estimates we could save $1 billion over five years by eliminating the death penalty, in an analysis that includes the $400-million cost of making needed upgrades to San Quentin State Prison's death row. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am
There wasn’t anything left for me to do anyway, so I left my San Francisco office and drove over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 11:10 am
There wasn’t anything left for me to do anyway, so I left my San Francisco office and drove over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am
There wasn’t anything left for me to do anyway, so I left my San Francisco office and drove over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
19 May 2024, 3:00 am
Death row at San Quentin was the largest of any prison in the Western Hemisphere. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 6:06 am
California's San Quentin: prisoner university project, including a class on Greek tragedy. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 8:33 am
The governor announced that he would be "borrowing" $64 million from the General Fund in order to move forward with one of his pet projects, the construction of a new death row facility at San Quentin. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
During the 1950s, Mississippi, Maryland, and New Mexico all carried out executions by lethal gas.In its 100-year history, the most famous gas chamber execution took place in California in 1960 when Caryl Chessman was killed at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 7:40 am
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]
29 Nov 2017, 7:18 am
Life After Life The journey of three black men who returned to their homes after incarceration in the San Quentin State Prison, titled “Life After Life,” painfully illustrates the racism which dominates the American criminal justice system. [read post]
