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7 Oct 2010, 8:37 am by Steve Hall
"Fogel said Tuesday it was his "understanding" that that the state "will not seek to obtain any execution dates until at least thirty days after the conclusion" of court hearings that have yet to be scheduled but are expected after the New Year.Fogel said he wants the attorney general's office and Brown's office to submit written arguments before he schedules any court hearings, one of which may be held at San Quentin prison so… [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:18 pm by Steve Hall
But when it comes to compassion or a desire for revenge, the differences spread wide.Those feelings came to the fore again this week, as they did for thousands of other murder victims' relatives in California, when the state came close to conducting its first execution at San Quentin State Prison in nearly five years.The lethal injection of rapist-murderer Albert Greenwood Brown was barred by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, the day before… [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 10:01 am by Steve Hall
"Supreme Court Blocks Execution Of San Quentin Man, Schwarzenegger Decries Decision," is by Julia Cheever for SF Appeal and the Bay City News. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 6:44 pm by StephanieWestAllen
But at San Quentin, there are ways to turn those challenges into opportunities for personal growth.San Quentin offers more than 70 self-help programs - far more than any other prison in the state. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 9:09 am by Steve Hall
That leaves prison officials free to proceed with California's standard three-drug execution early Wednesday unless state or federal courts intervene.The grim choice given to Brown followed a legal battle that shut down California's death chamber at San Quentin State Prison for almost five years.Fogel, who halted executions in the state in 2006 with a ruling that excoriated its lethal injection practices, has denied requests by… [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 8:23 pm by Steve Hall
He is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin prison on Wednesday morning.This month, Mr. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 6:53 pm by Steve Hall
" And: Fogel observed that he was being asked to decide the Brown case "in a severely limited time frame," as the 56-year-old's execution has been set for Wednesday at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 10:42 am by James Clark, ACLU of Southern California
While state employees have been furloughed, the inmates at San Quentin have been hard at work building the new facility to replace the rigged-up gas chamber they had been using. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 2:17 pm by Steve Hall
" State lawyers have laid out for a federal judge their plans for an execution scheduled next week at San Quentin that will use one drug instead of the usual three.But the attorneys cautioned in papers filed with U.S. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 8:35 am by Steve Hall
Wednesday in the new facility, an $853,000 compound inside San Quentin State Prison that was built with prison labor in a project that began in 2007. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 8:16 am by Steve Hall
District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose halted executions in California in 2006 and ordered prison officials to improve the procedures for administering lethal injections.Lawyers for some of the 702 inmates on death row at San Quentin State Prison are seeking an extension of the execution moratorium Fogel imposed. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 3:01 pm by brian
There are now 705 prisoners on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison.Their fate awaits the resolution of a number of legal challenges to the lethal injection procedures used to carry out the death sentence... [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
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 state court orders that found the… [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 8:33 am by Terry Lenamon
The governor announced that he would be "borrowing" $64 million from the General Fund in order to move forward with one of his pet projects, the construction of a new death row facility at San Quentin. [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]
13 Aug 2010, 11:34 am by James Clark, ACLU of Southern California
The governor announced that he would be "borrowing" $64 million from the General Fund in order to move forward with one of his pet projects, the construction of a new death row facility at San Quentin. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 1:40 pm by Steve Hall
Arnold Schwarzenegger to expand the death row complex at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 9:37 am by Kent Scheidegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration said Wednesday it will borrow nearly $65 million from the state's cash-strapped general fund to begin building a new 1,152-bed death row at San Quentin State Prison.But of course we don't need a 1,152-bed death row. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 6:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Elena Tootell, chief medical officer at San Quentin state prison, told committee members. [read post]