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19 Sep 2008, 3:06 pm
He argued the changes were exempt from undergoing public hearings because it affected only San Quentin State Prison, where Morales was to be executed, and it did not change procedures throughout the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.And:The case came before the appeals court because Morales' attorneys filed a lawsuit in the Marin County Superior Court, where San Quentin is located, against the… [read post]
4 May 2009, 12:43 pm
San Quentin's death row, the nation's largest, houses 680 prisoners. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:17 am
A separate state lawsuit is challenging the way the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation developed the new protocols. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 8:08 pm
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff WriterWednesday, October 31, 2007California's new procedures for lethal injections are invalid because they were never submitted to the public for comment or reviewed by the office that approves all state regulations, a Marin County judge said Tuesday in a tentative ruling that could prolong the state's moratorium on executions.Superior Court Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor agreed with lawyers for two condemned prisoners that the… [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 9:06 am
The state is trying to develop a new protocol, in part by building a death chamber to replace the one at San Quentin State Prison, which Fogel found was poorly lighted and designed as well as overcrowded. [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 3:28 pm
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) involves a former (I think) inmate who was previously incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 9:25 pm
However, as this AP story documents, death row suicides in California have reached a notable modern milestone:The latest death at San Quentin Prison marked a gruesome landmark that underscored just how jammed up the state's capital punishment system has become: Suicides have now supplanted executions as the second leading cause of death on California's death row. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 3:11 pm
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, holds that the State' lethal injection protocol, "STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAN QUENTIN OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE NUMBER 0-770 EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION, is invalid and it enjoins California "from carrying out the lethal injection of any condemned inmates under OP 770 unless and until that protocol is promulgated in compliance with the APA. [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]
18 May 2007, 7:04 pm
* Judge Allows Autopsy on Executed InmateThat debate reached a crescendo last December when a Florida inmate's botched execution led to what witnesses described as an excruciating, slow death and a subsequent moratorium in that state on executions.California's existing lethal injection facility at San Quentin prison -- a cylindrical windowed room -- was built as a gas chamber in 1937, Seth Unger, a state Department of… [read post]
5 May 2011, 10:19 am
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation requested more time because San Quentin State Prison's new warden, Michael Martel, wants to recruit a new execution team to replace the one that was assembled and trained last year, according to court documents. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 4:10 pm
"OP 770 states the procedure is subject to the approval of the San Quentin Warden(Warden) and the CDCR Secretary. [read post]
12 May 2011, 9:41 am
Here's the entire release: Jeanne Woodford, former Undersecretary and Director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Warden of San Quentin State Prison, has been selected as the new executive director of Death Penalty Focus, board president Mike Farrell announced today. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 8:08 am
Sam Robinson, spokesman for San Quentin. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 8:34 am
The new legal developments signal that the state is trying to kick-start the death penalty in California, despite repeated setbacks in the state and federal courts that have effectively shuttered San Quentin's death chamber since the January 2006 execution of Clarence Ray Allen.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation adopted new lethal injection procedures this summer, hoping to resolve… [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]
23 Feb 2009, 9:44 am
"We believe this to be the most expeditious way to carry out the will of the people and allow California to resume capital punishment," said Seth Unger, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 1:11 pm
"Ground has not yet been broken on a new death row at California's San Quentin State Prison, but the projected cost of the project has soared by nearly 80 percent for a compound that could be full only three years after it opens, said an audit reported by the Los Angeles Times. [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]
6 Oct 2013, 8:23 am
And while they wait on San Quentin State Prison's death row, they lead a relatively comfortable existence, with single cells and access to the best attorneys fighting for prisoners' rights. [read post]
