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14 Apr 2007, 6:47 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration last month quietly began building an elaborate new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to past muster with a federal judge who ordered a moratorium on the state's executions. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 12:55 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration last month quietly began building an elaborate new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to past muster with a federal judge who ordered a moratorium on the state's executions.News that the administration authorized the facility -- which will have three separate viewing rooms, a holding cell, and a large area for executioners to prepare deadly cocktails for lethal injections -- drew… [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 8:18 pm
According to the San Francisco Chronicle The California Supreme Court, in an unusual step, has ordered state prosecutors to respond to defense lawyers' claims that new evidence shows a San Quentin State Prison inmate is innocent of the 1985 murder of a prison guard that sent him to Death Row.Jarvis Masters' appeal is still a longshot in a court that upholds more than 90 percent of the death sentences it considers. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 7:41 am
In a ruling Dec. 15, Fogel said lethal injections are carried out by poorly selected and trained staff in dimly lit and overcrowded conditions at San Quentin State Prison, with inadequate monitoring and record keeping and few safeguards against a botched execution. [read post]
16 Dec 2006, 9:39 am
"Fogel, who visited the death chamber in San Quentin and held a four-day hearing in San Jose in September, said the case generated evidence that "is more than adequate to establish a constitutional violation. [read post]
15 Dec 2006, 5:26 pm
Although the judge didn't come out and explicitly say it, there were strong hints that San Quentin personnel may be stealing the sodium thiopental sedative that is supposed to knock out the inmates before they receive the second injection of deadly — and extremely painful — chemicals.On page 10 of the opinion, Fogel noted that "one former execution team leader, who was responsible for the custody of sodium thiopental (which in… [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 2:31 pm
In addition, the brief asserts that the execution team at San Quentin State Prison is "unlicensed, untrained, unprofessional and incompetent" to carry out its duties. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 4:18 am
In addition, the brief asserts that the execution team at San Quentin State Prison is "unlicensed, untrained, unprofessional and incompetent" to carry out its duties.... [read post]
13 Dec 2005, 12:22 am
[JURIST] Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams [advocacy website] died at 12:35 AM Tuesday morning after being executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
27 Nov 2005, 12:06 pm
Will the residents of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay be entitled to conditions of confinement meeting exactly the same standards federal judges have cumulatively imposed, under the Eighth Amendment, on San Quentin and Leavenworth? [read post]
18 Nov 2005, 6:28 am
High-profile figures join the crowds protesting Stanley 'Tookie' Williams: Former street gangster and rapper Snoop Dogg will attend a rally outside San Quentin State Prison to support a former gang leader scheduled to be executed next month for murdering four people in robberies. [read post]
