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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]
4 Aug 2008, 10:02 am
" The San Quentin penitentiary, just north of San Francisco, houses nearly all the state's 635 condemned persons; depicted above right is its Condemned Inmate Housing, East Block. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 9:06 am
District Judge Jeremy Fogel issued an order this week calling off a formal site review of the new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison later this month and postponing hearings on the case scheduled for Dec. 10 and 11 in his courtroom. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:21 am by CJLF Staff
San Quentin Prison Spokesman Answers Questions About Scott Peterson: FoxNews.com reports a list of questions about death row inmate Scott Peterson was recently submitted to San Quentin prison by Fox News Channel San Francisco bureau correspondent Claudia Cowan and producer Mike Lundin. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 2:26 pm
The crown jewel of the proposed fire sale is San Quentin State Prison, home to California's death row and beautifully situated in the San Francisco Bay. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 9:49 am by Steve Hall
" "Execution procedure rejected," is the title of Scott Smith's Stockton Record report.In 2006, Morales came within steps of the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 8:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Glad to see more scrutiny in this area.A non-sexual escort service in HoustonA pair of Houston police officers have been arrested and charged in federal court with escorting drug shipments for a Mexican cartel, potentially facing life without parole.Live, from HuntsvilleYou've heard the Man in Black's albums from Folsom Prison and San Quentin, but did you know Johnny Cash's first prison concert was in Huntsville, TX? [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:17 am by Steve Hall
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]
3 Nov 2008, 6:29 am
We're lucky in Texas our Legislature has embraced the idea of treatment funding to avoid new prison building which, as the former San Quentin warden says, may be the only real option to stem the swelling tide of prisoners and red ink in the state corrections budget. [read post]
28 May 2008, 10:38 pm
  That's why the recent DEA drug investigation and raid at San Diego State University is so interesting. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:11 am by Steve Hall
More than a dozen men sit on San Quentin Prison's death row for crimes they committed in San Joaquin County. [read post]
15 May 2007, 11:49 pm
They also said they would complete construction of a new death chamber, as the existing facility at San Quentin Prison, originally the gas chamber, had to be maintained in case any inmates choose that method of execution. [read post]
4 May 2009, 12:43 pm
San Quentin's death row, the nation's largest, houses 680 prisoners. [read post]
3 May 2012, 8:59 am by Steve Hall
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]
18 May 2007, 6:36 pm
Fogel did not order the state to construct a new execution chamber at San Quentin, but did identify the cramped, old current chamber as a factor in finding the state couldn't guarantee a humane execution. [read post]
20 Mar 2016, 9:49 am by Howard Friedman
LEXIS 33382 (WD WI, March 15, 2016), a Wisconsin federal district court dismissed Muslim inmates' challenges to a rule barring inmate-led religious services (which resulted in a failure to hold Jumu'ah services in April of 2012), and challenges to the failure to hire a Muslim chaplain.A California federal district court (ND Cal., March 14 and 17, 2016) issued essentially identical opinions in 6 separate cases allowing inmates at San Quentin to move ahead with suits… [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 11:48 am by Steve Hall
The Schwarzenegger administration announced last week that it plans to borrow $64.7 million from the state's cash-strapped general fund to accelerate construction of a new death row at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
30 May 2012, 10:47 am by CJLF Staff
  Child Molester on CA Death Row Found Hanged: Mike Reicher and Chris Megerian of the Los Angeles Times report James Lee Crummel hanged himself at San Quentin State Prison on Sunday, authorities announced Tuesday. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 9:36 am
The California state prison at San Quentin, where all of the state’s death-row inmates are housed, currently houses 680 death-row inmates. [read post]