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3 May 2012, 8:59 am
California revised its protocol, but an appeals court has blocked a resumption of executions over the same objections.Motions filed by Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday asked that the warden of San Quentin State Prison put convicted murderers Mitchell Carleton Sims and Tiequon Aundray Cox to death by the single-drug protocol or show cause why the executions cannot proceed.Sims, 52, and Cox, 46, have… [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
Since then, the state has constructed a new death chamber at San Quentin Prison, developed new regulations and trained a new team to carry out executions. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:27 pm
Jeanne Woodford, former warden at San Quentin state prison and supporter of the SAFE California Act, said in a press statement, “Back in 1978 [when the state expanded its use of capital punishment], we did not have an alternative sentence that would keep convicted killers behind bars forever. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:17 am
Heller, an ex-prosecutor who wrote the 1978 initiative; Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison who oversaw four executions; and former L.A. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:59 am
As Jeanne Woodford the former Warden at San Quentin State Prison, and current Executive Director at Death Penalty Focus, put it, this is a "game-changer of massive proportions. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 6:07 am
Backers of the measure say abolishing the death penalty will save the state millions of dollars through layoffs of prosecutors and defense attorneys who handle death penalty cases, as well as savings from not having to maintain the nation's largest death row at San Quentin prison. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 6:06 am
California's San Quentin: prisoner university project, including a class on Greek tragedy. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 9:54 am
The movement is getting some unexpected allies, including the a man who successfully campaigned for the death penalty approval in 1978, the former prosecutor who wrote that law, the former warden of San Quentin State Prison and a former district attorney for L.A. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 8:26 am
Former San Quentin warden Jeanne Woodford points out that: “Connecticut’s estimated $5 million in annual death penalty costs pale in comparison to California’s $184 million per year. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:11 am
More than a dozen men sit on San Quentin Prison's death row for crimes they committed in San Joaquin County. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 1:02 pm
But California has executed only 13 people, beginning with Robert Alton Harris, who died in the San Quentin gas chamber on April 21, 1992. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 9:11 am
"California voters are ready to replace the death penalty with life in prison with no chance of parole," declared Jeanne Woodford, who oversaw four executions as warden of San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 8:59 am
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]
14 Feb 2012, 5:21 am
Take the case of San Quentin prison. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 8:16 am
Jeanne Woodford served as warden of San Quentin State Prison in California from 1999 through 2004. [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]
28 Dec 2011, 8:22 am
” And Jeanne Woodford, the former warden of San Quentin State Prison, who presided over four executions, now speaks out against the death penalty, has become the executive director of Death Penalty Focus, and is working hard on the SAFE California Act, a ballot initiative that would replace the death penalty with life without parole. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 4:36 pm
The case was assigned to Marin County because San Quentin is located there. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:12 am
" D'Opal said that the CDCR also failed to disclose the costs of executions, all of which are conducted at San Quentin Prison in Marin County. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 7:44 am
The law in most states, in the federal system, in the military allows state murder in some cases. [read post]
