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6 Oct 2023, 2:19 pm by John Ross
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]
18 Mar 2008, 3:51 am
DG: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has used this order and visits to other state and federal institutions to make improvements. $850,000 dollars later, California has built the newest execution chamber in the country at San Quentin Prison. [read post]
24 May 2023, 1:51 pm by Meghan Nguyen
He became the first Asian American on death row in San Quentin. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 2:15 pm by Mike
Fitzgerald was a brittle diabetic who died on September 12, 2006 of an acute diabetic coma while in San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 10:13 pm by Lovechilde
That is how my husband came to be at the office while the collect call from San Quentin came to our house. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 9:41 am by Steve Hall
If we may be of assistance to you moving forward, please do not hesitate to call upon any of us.Respectfully and collegially,Allen Ault – Retired Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classifications PrisonTerry Collins – Retired Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and CorrectionRon McAndrew – Retired Warden, Florida State PrisonDennis O’Neill - Retired Warden, Florida State PrisonReginald Wilkinson – Retired Director, Ohio Department of… [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:55 am by Lovechilde
San Quentin State Prison Professor Bill Ong Hing, who served on the California Commission for the Fair Administration of Justice (CCFAJ), argued recently that California's death penalty should be abolished because of its intractable problems: The death penalty is too costly, the possibility is high that a person who has been wrongfully convicted will be put to death, capital punishment inordinately affects communities of color, the imposition of the death … [read post]
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]
23 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm by Paula Mitchell
  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]
12 Jun 2007, 3:27 pm
  Read more here (from the San Jose Mercury News). [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 2:38 pm by Lovechilde
San Quentin State Prison 40 years ago today, the United States Supreme Court decided Furman v. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 7:37 am by Lovechilde
 Robert was finally put to death in San Quentin's gas chamber after the U.S. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 10:22 am by aerlawnew4
 Executions were required to be carried out by hanging at one of two California state prisons: San Quentin State Prison or Folsom State Prison. 1900s The California death penalty faced some serious legal issues in the 1900s. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 10:22 am by Ambrosio Rodriguez
 Executions were required to be carried out by hanging at one of two California state prisons: San Quentin State Prison or Folsom State Prison. 1900s The California death penalty faced some serious legal issues in the 1900s. [read post]
5 Oct 2012, 10:39 am by Jeff Gamso
  In 1968, he was among those holding a vigil outside the gates of San Quentin when Aaron Mitchell was executed. [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]
29 Feb 2012, 8:59 am by Lovechilde
  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]
18 Apr 2008, 8:46 am
" In calling for a temporary halt of the state's death penalty, the judge cited everything from ill-trained executioners to a jury-rigged death chamber: The state's outdated gas chamber at San Quentin had been converted to serve as the lethal injection chamber. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 1:13 am
If executions ceased, the state could abandon proposals to build a new Death Row for more than $300 million to replace antiquated facilities at San Quentin, which opened in 1852.Texas also has a big Death Row _ 371 inmates. [read post]