San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón expresses the right to seek the death penalty in “very heinous” cases. “I’m not going to compromise,” … [Read more...]
California May Extend Moratorium on Executions
SACRAMENTO — The state will not be ready to defend its new lethal injection procedures in court until early next year, prolonging a moratorium on … [Read more...]
State Delays Awarding of Contract for Death Row
Officials with the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (report) they have delayed awarding a contract for the first phase of the $356 … [Read more...]
Legal Counsel For Death Row Prisoners Is Hard to Come By
Edward Patrick Morgan has lived on San Quentin Prison’s Death Row without a lawyer for about two decades and what accounts as an automatic legal right … [Read more...]
Marin County Attempts to Block Death Row Expansion
SanRafael — Marin County officials have filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to block San Quentin’s new 541,000-square-foot Death … [Read more...]
Bids Opened for Start Of Death Row Expansion
The Marin County Board of Supervisor filed a lawsuit challenging efforts to expand San Quentin’s death row, but it failed to halt bidding for the … [Read more...]
First U.S. Woman Executed in 5 Years
She was the first woman executed in the United States in five years – the first executed in Virginia in 98 years. Teresa Lewis, 41, who plotted with … [Read more...]
Condemned Inmate Found Dead
Death row inmate Edward Dean Bridges, 55, dies Thursday morning of suicide. (Photo provided by California Department of Corrections)A condemned inmate … [Read more...]
Jeanne Woodford On the Death Penalty
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a series of articles on the Aug. 2 interview Editor-in-Chief Michael R. Harris conducted with Jeanne Woodford, a … [Read more...]
Marin Seeks Death Penalty for Stabbing
The Marin County district attorney says he will seek the death penalty for a San Quentin prisoner accused of fatally stabbing a fellow inmate in July … [Read more...]