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Apr 4, 2024 · Grim setting, no reaper. California is shutting down death row at San Quentin. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) By the end of summer, they will be gone and death row will no longer exist. No ...
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May 8, 2024 · Officials in two San Bernardino County cities are outraged over the transfer of more than two dozen death row prisoners from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center to the California Institution...
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Apr 24, 2024 · California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment. A new audacious legal challenge to the death penalty in the state supreme court is seeking to finally end executions forever, Josh Marcus reports. Wednesday 24 April 2024 22:17 BST. Comments.
- Josh Marcus
Jan 13, 2023 · No inmates will be re-sentenced and no death row commutations offered, officials say. Technically, the death penalty still exists in California. Prosecutors can still seek it.
- Eric Westervelt
Mar 13, 2019 · RICHARD ALLEN DAVIS. Davis, 64, has been on death row at San Quentin since his 1996 conviction in the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California. The case helped gain support for California’s “three-strikes law” for repeat offenders. A third conviction for a serious felony leads to an automatic life sentence.
Feb 26, 2024 · Condemned Inmate Transfer Program (CITP) In compliance with voter-approved Proposition 66, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is undergoing a transition in housing incarcerated people with condemned sentences. In a historic move, CDCR is phasing out its segregated death row units at San Quentin Rehabilitation ...
Jan 31, 2022 · The largest death row facility in the United States is set to close following an announcement by California governor Gavin Newsom. Officials say the death row at San Quentin State Prison will instead become a “positive, healing environment” following the closure of the facility in two years time.