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1 Feb 2011, 8:20 am
The judge is scheduled next Tuesday to tour San Quentin's new execution chamber as part of the case. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 10:20 am
For decades, Mitchell Sims and Tiequon Cox have sat on California's male Death Row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 8:26 am
The last execution at San Quentin State Prison was that of Clarence Ray Allen on Jan. 17, 2006, the 13th in California since 1978.Since that day, at least 205 convicts have been executed in other states, 24 death row inmates at San Quentin have died from natural causes or suicide, and 83 people have been sentenced to death in California courts.But no one has been executed in California since Allen, including Modesto's Scott… [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 7:49 am
But it seems like there must be something better we could do with all that energy.As a fellow student said: If the world was going to end and I had to pick three people to take to a new planet with me, I sure wouldn't choose any of you law students -- I'd take a San Quentin prisoner. [read post]
14 May 2007, 9:18 pm
CA DOC chief apologizes re death chamber secrecy Article Link : [www.marinij.com] Article : Prisons chief apologizes for death chamber debacle Edwin Garcia Article Launched: 05/09/2007 12:17:26 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - A contrite James Tilton, head of the California prison system, apologized Tuesday for lawmakers being kept in the dark about construction of a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
He cheated the hangman, or in California's case whoever pushes the needle, by dying of a pulmonary embolism while awaiting execution at San Quentin prison on Dec. 27, 2005.At the time of the shootings, Quadros was 52, Hillery was 56, Shaline was 57, and Willis was 51.Today more than 7,800 people work at FSIS to keep the nation's meat and poultry safe. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 12:46 pm
We see this as a historic shift that will carry us through to the elections,” said Jeanne Woodford, former San Quentin warden and spokesperson for the campaign to put an initiative on the ballot to replace the death penalty with life without parole at the November 2012 election. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 11:18 pm
Quinn said he's unsure what the state would do next.All state executions take place at 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 state court orders that found the… [read post]
12 May 2011, 9:30 am
Dan Tilkin of KATU News has this story.Former San Quentin Warden Appointed to New Role: Carol J. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 9:19 am
A California road trip that brought sodium thiopental from Arizona to San Quentin emerged in nearly 1,000 pages of documents released by the A.C.L.U. of Northern California late last year. [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]
1 Nov 2007, 1:22 am
"The undisputed evidence establishes that (the protocol) is a rule or regulation of general application" and affects prison officials and condemned inmates outside San Quentin State Prison, where the death chamber is located, Taylor said in confirming a tentative ruling she issued Tuesday. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:00 pm
In fact, the likelihood of getting COVID-19 in prison is 5.5 times higher than in the general population.Since the start of the pandemic, some of the worst outbreaks in the country have been in prisons, such as at California’s San Quentin, where the coronavirus infected 75% of the those incarcerated there.Prisons in Illinois have also been particularly hard hit. [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]
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]
24 Sep 2010, 10:42 am
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]
1 Jun 2007, 7:01 pm
"This would be Fogel's second visit to San Quentin. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 8:44 am
Hardened criminals inside California's famous San Quentin prison get 10 hours.Yet kids at a Dallas County correctional center for boys went months, sometimes more than a year, without going outdoors more than a few times.For years, the boys at the Lyle B. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 5:20 pm
” As of May 2020, Daleiden could be forced to pay $2.2. million for the civil lawsuit and face up to ten years of prison time in San Quentin penitentiary if convicted of the remaining ten criminal charges. [read post]
